#picks!

[railraptor]

Belmont Stakes Picks...

Tried to limit myself again.

Easy Goer: Japan, Stanford

Woody Stephens: Competitive Edge

Jaipur International: Power Alert

Ogden Phipps: Untapable

Brooklyn Invitational: Red Rifle SCRATCH so Effinex

Acorn: Promise Me Silver, Miss Ella

Just A Game: Coffee Clique

Met Mile: Tonalist, Honor Code

Manhattan: Finnegan’s Wake

Belmont: American Pharoah, Frosted, Mubtaahij

I love the look of Mubtaahij, and he certainly seems fit. And I’ve liked Frosted a lot too. BUT I really want to see AP do it. I swore after I’ll Have Another that I wouldn’t let myself get too sure it would happen, but I can’t help it. I’ve been watching desperately for too long.

[railraptor]

Day Two of Breeders' Cup 2014

Meh, I give up. Closing my eyes, throwing darts and going with heart picks this year.

Breeders' Cup Juvenile Fillies: Feathered/Majestic Presence/Take Charge Brandi

Breeders' Cup Filly/Mare Turf: Just the Judge/Dayatthespa/Abaco (I would like Dank more if she'd run since Royal Ascot, although Magician won last year's Turf after a similar layoff...I wouldn't be stunned to see her win, is my point).

Breeders' Cup Filly/Mare Sprint: Judy the Beauty/Sweet Reason

Breeders' Cup Turf Sprint: No Nay Never/Casper Netscher

Breeders' Cup Juvenile: Carpe Diem

Breeders' Cup Turf: Main Sequence/Flintshire/Imagining (I'm intrigued by Chiquita, especially if the two week turnaround and flight don't do her in, if they can keep her in a straight line. But that's too many ifs for me).

Breeders' Cup Sprint: Rich Tapestry/Palace

Breeders' Cup Mile: Toronado

Breeders' Cup Classic: Shared Belief/Tonalist/Toast of New York

Yep, the only horse I feel really invested in is Toronado, who I've followed for over two years, and who I always root for. Everything else just seems so evenly matched and I feel so detached from the whole thing that I just can't seem to get too interested. As long as everyone makes it back to their stalls in one piece, that's kind of all I want today.

[railraptor]

Day One of Breeders' Cup 2014

I don't know why, but I'm not feeling it this year. Maybe it's all the defections, but I'm less enthused than I've been in years.

PICKS

Breeders' Cup Juvenile Turf: OK, so I like the way Wet Sail looked galloping at Santa Anita, and I like that he's by Henrythenavigator. War Envoy looked very good when second in the Champagne at Doncaster, and of course you have to respect the O'Brien/Moore combination in this race, but I'm mostly torn between Hootenanny and Imperia.

Breeders' Cup Dirt Mile: I've liked Fed Biz for a long time, which also makes me a little leery. He's been running well this year, though, so I'm giving him an edge over Goldencents and Tapiture.

Breeders' Cup Juvenile Fillies Turf: Two of Chad Brown's fillies, Sivoliere and Tammy the Torpedo have looked good, as do Sunset Glow and Conquest Harlanate. I guess for the sake of choosing just one (this really does seem to be a wide open race), I'm going to close my eyes and point at....Sivoliere (GO Gary Stevens, WHOO)

Breeders' Cup Distaff: Close Hatches over Untapable and Don't Tell Sophia. I don't know what to make of her last start, and I've seen the comparison to Royal Delta come up, but I'm jumping with just my heart here, and I really want to see Close Hatches win this. (This tendency is why I rarely gamble :P).

And for old time's sake, I like Irish Surf/Big Kick in the Las Vegas Marathon Stakes (basically the Breeders' Cup Marathon).

[notabuddhist]

[ivancastell]

Top 5 videos: 19/08/2011-26/08/2011

1) Ital - "Only for tonight" (Aurora Halal, Luke Wyatt & Daniel Martin-McCormick)

2) The Naked And Famous - "The Sun" (Joel Kefali & Campbell Hooper)

3) éS Skateboarding - "Be A Manwolf Today" (Corey Adams & Alex Craig)

4) Marina and the diamonds - "Radioactive" (Casper Balslev)

5) Skrillex - "First Of The Year" (Equinox) (Tony Truand))

[ivancastell]

Top 5 videos: 12/08/2011-19/08/2011

1) Azari & III - "Manic" (James Henry)

2) Chromeo - "When The Night Falls" (DANIELS)

3) Burn Energy drink - "subject.0017" (Saman Keshavarz)

4) Kid Cudi "No One Believes Me" (Craig Gillespie (Mr. Woodcock))

5) Scroobius Pip - "Introdiction" (Aaron Shrimpton & Scroobius Pip))

[ivancastell]

Top 10 videos: 30/07/2011-12/08/2011

1) DEVolution - "Good Love" (Jess Gorick)

2) John Maus - "Believer" (Jennifer Juniper Stratford)

3) Wooden Shjips - "Black Smoke Rise" (Miko Revereza)

4) Lafayette - "Les dessous feminins" (JACK)

5) Matthew Dear - "Slowdance" (Charles Bergquist))

6) Nando's Noise - "Reggie Watts" (David Clark)

7) The National - "Exile, Vilify" (C.F.Meister))

8) Black Black Hills - "The Celebration" (Blac Ionica)

9) EMA - "Endless Nameless" (Brock & Eva / Experimental Half Hour)

10) Lia Ices - "Love Is Won" (Christin Turner)