"The Preakness" May 17, 2008

sportsshooter06

This 133 rd edition . 2 million dollars added money.


Big Brown, Crossing the finish line, wins the 133rd running of the" Preakness Stakes " Saturday, May 17, 2008







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SloYerRoll

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sportsshooter06

Jockey, Kent Desmoreux and his friend " Big Brown "















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ian408

sportsshooter06 wrote:

Jockey, Kent Desmoreux and his friend " Big Brown "

Nice smile on the horse

Looks like it will be a try for the triple crown in a couple of weeks too.

tamplum

I love the first picture. We watched to race on TV last night and I was amazed at the ease with which Big Brown won. Was no effort. How great to have been there, and able to catch that shot.

SloYerRoll

1st shot is really good. WB is way off though.

DI-Joe

I was at Outback having dinner and a guy who was there at the bar won $350,000 on that horse. Seemed like it was sure thing from the way that horse just up and left the rest of the field. I don't like horse racing(too round and round) that much though. I think they should have horse rally racing... *snickers*

Killer pic though. I wouldn't say the WB is way off, I'd say maybe a tweak to cool it off, but generally speaking it's appropriate for the color light that was there at the time.

KED

DI-Joe wrote:

I was at Outback having dinner and a guy who was there at the bar one $350,000 on that horse.

If that's true, and I doubt it, he bet something like $300,000 or maybe more. Pretty stupid in that context. And if he had that kind of scratch to put down on a horse race, then he probably wouldn't have been eating at Outback -- no offense to you or to Outback!!

DI-Joe

KED wrote:

If that's true, and I doubt it, he bet something like $300,000 or maybe more. Pretty stupid in that context. And if he had that kind of scratch to put down on a horse race, then he probably wouldn't have been eating at Outback -- no offense to you or to Outback!!

well he looked like a tool, so I make no claims to accuracy. He kept saying that he had 50k on the horse and then I thought I heard that it was a 7:1 return(he was yammering about 7 times 50 grand was a good days work or something).

Anyway, he looked about ready to retire in florida(reminded me of Jerry Stiller)

ian408

DI-Joe wrote:

Anyway, he looked about ready to retire in florida(reminded me of Jerry Stiller)

If he could retire on $300K, more power to him

KED

DI-Joe wrote:

well he looked like a tool, so I make no claims to accuracy. He kept saying that he had 50k on the horse and then I thought I heard that it was a 7:1 return(he was yammering about 7 times 50 grand was a good days work or something).

Anyway, he looked about ready to retire in florida(reminded me of Jerry Stiller)

I am not a gambler and don't profess to fully understand payouts on the odds, but at BEST that horse went off at 1 - 2, maybe 1 - 3 by racetime (based on a quick Google that I just did). So that means I was wrong in my prior post -- that tool would have had to bet $700K at least. Call me crazy, but I don't think so.

DI-Joe

KED wrote:

I am not a gambler and don't profess to fully understand payouts on the odds, but at BEST that horse went off at 1 - 2, maybe 1 - 3 by racetime (based on a quick Google that I just did). So that means I was wrong in my prior post -- that tool would have had to bet $700K at least. Call me crazy, but I don't think so.

oootay.

sportsshooter06

DI-Joe wrote:

I was at Outback having dinner and a guy who was there at the bar won $350,000 on that horse. Seemed like it was sure thing from the way that horse just up and left the rest of the field. I don't like horse racing(too round and round) that much though. I think they should have horse rally racing... *snickers*

Killer pic though. I wouldn't say the WB is way off, I'd say maybe a tweak to cool it off, but generally speaking it's appropriate for the color light that was there at the time.

The horse paid $2.40, i don't think anyone won $350,000

I would say, were you there?, i was 50 feet from the finish, I think the WB is fine, considering he came from shadow to sun in 2 frames.

Mr slow, show me a better, original version.

sportsshooter06

SloYerRoll wrote:

Who's we?

r u a detective?

sportsshooter06

ian408 wrote:

Nice smile on the horse

Looks like it will be a try for the triple crown in a couple of weeks too.

Big Brown, is a beautiful animal, watching him run is a pleasure.

He will be an overwhelming favorite, to win the "belmont"

sportsshooter06

tamplum wrote:

I love the first picture. We watched to race on TV last night and I was amazed at the ease with which Big Brown won. Was no effort. How great to have been there, and able to catch that shot.

It was a grand time, the photo is pretty easy, when the horse is right in front of you.

We were there working, glad you like the photo.

sportsshooter06

DI-Joe wrote:

well he looked like a tool, so I make no claims to accuracy. He kept saying that he had 50k on the horse and then I thought I heard that it was a 7:1 return(he was yammering about 7 times 50 grand was a good days work or something).

Anyway, he looked about ready to retire in florida(reminded me of Jerry Stiller)

He paid $2.40 for every 2.00, what a payday! dunno

oldtime

Some nice shoots that convey the feeling of the track
A good shot of Big Brown at the finish , that would have been even better with some panning technique applied ( a blurred background would have made these rock)

sportsshooter06

oldtime wrote:

Some nice shoots that convey the feeling of the track
A good shot of Big Brown at the finish , that would have been even better with some panning technique applied ( a blurred background would have made these rock)

Thanks for looking

SloYerRoll

sportsshooter06 wrote:

r u a detective?

Actually I'm a master of the obvious.