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Rosie
Member
11-12-2003
| Saturday, May 07, 2005 - 2:13 pm
Thanks Babyruth. You are looking very festive yourself. Those 5th floor box seats are something else. 
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Legalboxer
Member
11-17-2003
| Saturday, May 07, 2005 - 2:15 pm
run for the roses
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Babyruth
Member
07-19-2001
| Saturday, May 07, 2005 - 2:32 pm
YeeHAW! lol
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Rosie
Member
11-12-2003
| Saturday, May 07, 2005 - 2:37 pm
Guess I will root for Afleet Alex. How about you?
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Babyruth
Member
07-19-2001
| Saturday, May 07, 2005 - 2:40 pm
Well, gee, after seeing that story, how can I NOT? GO ALEX!
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Legalboxer
Member
11-17-2003
| Saturday, May 07, 2005 - 2:41 pm
lol
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Rosie
Member
11-12-2003
| Saturday, May 07, 2005 - 2:41 pm
That is what got me too!
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Whoami
Member
08-03-2001
| Saturday, May 07, 2005 - 2:47 pm
I was in the shower (I'm also recording). I missed the story. Anyone care to summarize? Or, I can just wait till I have time to watch it myself. ETA: The commentator just said "how can you not" about pulling for Afleet Alex, "knowing the story behind that horse." LOL. I think he's reading TVCH on the side! Sounds like he quoted you word for word!
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Rosie
Member
11-12-2003
| Saturday, May 07, 2005 - 2:54 pm
Hi Whomum, here is a little bit of info for you: Afleet Alex's breeder, John Silverstand, credits the colt with helping keep him alive after he was diagnosed with colon cancer. Afleet Alex's owners are donating part of his winnings to the coincidentally named Alex's Lemonade Stand for Pediatric Cancer Research. The charity is named for Alexandra Scott, who died of cancer Aug. 1 at the age of 8.
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Rosie
Member
11-12-2003
| Saturday, May 07, 2005 - 2:56 pm
P.S. Doesn't everyone read TVCH?
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Jan
Member
08-01-2000
| Saturday, May 07, 2005 - 2:57 pm
Who, the breeder has cancer and should be dead by now but force of will is keeping him alive; the trainer is a first timer Derby trainer; the jockey is a first time Derby jockey ; the owners are 5 small time guys who bought the horse (at the advice of the trainer) for 75K. But to top it all off, the horse is a sponsor of Alex's Lemonade, the little girl on TV all last year - a cancer child trying to raise money for pediatric cancer research through lemonade stands. There are now Alex lemonade stands all over the continent (including one run by her Mom on the Derby grounds). Alex was shown being interviewed last year..she died in Aug of last year.
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Babyruth
Member
07-19-2001
| Saturday, May 07, 2005 - 2:59 pm
The little girl Alex (4 or 5 years old) started selling lemonade to raise $$ for pediatric cancer research. The idea caught on, and soon lemonade stands were popping up around the country to raise $$ for her fund, moeny not for HER, but donated for research. Brave little kid. Real sad but inspiring story.
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Babyruth
Member
07-19-2001
| Saturday, May 07, 2005 - 3:00 pm
lovely chapeaus!
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Whoami
Member
08-03-2001
| Saturday, May 07, 2005 - 3:01 pm
My Old Kentucky Home always gets me right there. Don't even know why. I've never lived in Kentucky. Never even been (except I think the Cincinnati airport is officially in Kentucky, so I guess I landed there once). ITA about little Alex. Brave little girl. Sad, but inspiring.
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Babyruth
Member
07-19-2001
| Saturday, May 07, 2005 - 3:02 pm
My old Kentucky home, waaaah wahhhhhh
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Babyruth
Member
07-19-2001
| Saturday, May 07, 2005 - 3:03 pm
whatchoo doing in my head, Who?
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Whoami
Member
08-03-2001
| Saturday, May 07, 2005 - 3:04 pm
Oohh, Giacamo is a pretty horse! LOL BR. I thought you were in mine! 
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Babyruth
Member
07-19-2001
| Saturday, May 07, 2005 - 3:05 pm
Gotta go. Gotta pee like a race-...oh never mind. See ya after the race. 
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Rosie
Member
11-12-2003
| Saturday, May 07, 2005 - 3:09 pm
Hiya Jan.
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Jan
Member
08-01-2000
| Saturday, May 07, 2005 - 3:12 pm
Hiya Rosie   
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Jan
Member
08-01-2000
| Saturday, May 07, 2005 - 3:14 pm
what did she just say about Spanish Chestnut being sacrificed by going out early? Why would they sacrifice their only horse??
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Whoami
Member
08-03-2001
| Saturday, May 07, 2005 - 3:18 pm
How in the world did I pick out Giacomo in the post parade, and then he won? I usually jinx things when I root for them! Of course, I was just commenting on him being a pretty horse. I was actually rooting for Afleet Alex! But, third in a race like this ain't bad at all. Yay Alex! I didn't catch that thing about Spanish Chestnut.
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Legalboxer
Member
11-17-2003
| Saturday, May 07, 2005 - 3:48 pm
yay Giacomo!!! your daddy will be so proud! and yay closing argument and afleet alex my boys placed!
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Babyruth
Member
07-19-2001
| Saturday, May 07, 2005 - 3:58 pm
What a great race! Very exciting finish.
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Legalboxer
Member
11-17-2003
| Saturday, May 07, 2005 - 3:59 pm
jan this is ONLY talk from some - not valid and only to be taken with a grain of salt but ... Spanish Chestnut and Bandini are owned by the same people - but trained by different men.. some call SC a rabbit and that he would be used to set the pace in order to pull Bellamy Road up fast and thus tire him out early so that Bandini can then come from behind like he is accostumed to doing - thus sacifricing SC for Bandini to win - using the rabbit to get the favorite to over extend early etc - all that being said, the owners and trainers scoff at such notions and said they felt SC was a valid contender to win the race and that he always sets the pace- just like their horses in the last two derbys have set the pace and no one used the rabbit theory on them... so its just alot of theory and talk which doesnt matter now that the race is over
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Juju2bigdog
Member
10-27-2000
| Saturday, May 07, 2005 - 7:23 pm
Way to go, Whoami!!! I wondered when I read your comment about a pretty horse whether or not you had seen the race by then.
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Jan
Member
08-01-2000
| Sunday, May 08, 2005 - 8:00 am
Thanks for the info, Legal. The statement I heard makes more sense now..and you gotta believe that Spanish Chestnut was definitely a rabbit in this race. No way could they have set the second fastest pace ever and thought they could keep it up and win the race. (That said, whatever happened to Bandini..wasn't he almost last???) The woman interviewer who mentioned it during the show also said that it (the rabbit) is an accepted practise in Europe and done all the time. I think Giacomo's owner should be sending a very big thank you present to Spanish chestnut's owners today   
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