Year 56 Turf Route Fantasy — DRAFT THREAD

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Re: Year 56 Turf Route Fantasy — DRAFT THREAD

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Dan Kauffman wrote: 3 years ago Also, I had Safe Place to Land as my No. 1 overall because I think she's clearly the top 3-year-old filly in her class. I'm big on 3-year-olds anyway because there are a lot of Grade 1/graded stakes races for them only, so good 3-year-olds rack up a lot of points against easier competition.
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Dan Kauffman wrote: 3 years ago Also, I had Safe Place to Land as my No. 1 overall because I think she's clearly the top 3-year-old filly in her class. I'm big on 3-year-olds anyway because there are a lot of Grade 1/graded stakes races for them only, so good 3-year-olds rack up a lot of points against easier competition.
That was my thought when drafting, too, but sometimes things got a bit hectic, now 3 of mine are 3 year olds I think. But similar to the TCT there's Always luck involved in Picking the horse(s) that will come out as the best of the crop. Now I just hope the owners (which includes me :lol:) are placing them in those graded stakes with softer Competition to rack up those Points :)
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My strategy was find a horse NOT already picked 😅 always took me an annoying amount of time haha I don’t know TR! glad the hard part is over! 🤪
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Rochelle Zahacy wrote: 3 years ago My strategy was find a horse NOT already picked 😅 always took me an annoying amount of time haha I don’t know TR! glad the hard part is over! 🤪
Haha, your comments About having Trouble to find a horse Always surprised me, as I thought my list of About 45 "obvious" horses would be gone by the end of round 3 or so, and 4 of them still ended up not being picked at all, lol. Kind of nice to see, though, how everyone has such different strategies :)
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Lisa Bennert wrote: 3 years ago
Rochelle Zahacy wrote: 3 years ago My strategy was find a horse NOT already picked 😅 always took me an annoying amount of time haha I don’t know TR! glad the hard part is over! 🤪
Haha, your comments About having Trouble to find a horse Always surprised me, as I thought my list of About 45 "obvious" horses would be gone by the end of round 3 or so, and 4 of them still ended up not being picked at all, lol. Kind of nice to see, though, how everyone has such different strategies :)
Yeah I don’t follow TR at all, my only strategy was to look at G1 races from last year and try to find a horse not on the list 😅 the fact you had a list of 45 is amazing hahaha
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why do you think I picked a lot of my own 3 year olds even though they might not be the best they are good enough to pick up quite a few points in easier stakes races
another reason was I am not that good at following tr so when the going got tough I just got lazy and looked to my own barn haha
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This will surprise absolutely no one, but I had a list of 172 horses. And none of them were 6 or older (I avoid them, they drop off too often for my liking). I obviously made the list while still thinking about drafting myself.

There were a lot of quality states-winning horses still out there. We could have gone two more rounds very easily (not that you guys would have wanted to. Lol. Oh and time would have run out.)
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Dan Kauffman wrote: 3 years ago This will surprise absolutely no one, but I had a list of 172 horses. And none of them were 6 or older (I avoid them, they drop off too often for my liking). I obviously made the list while still thinking about drafting myself.

There were a lot of quality states-winning horses still out there. We could have gone two more rounds very easily (not that you guys would have wanted to. Lol. Oh and time would have run out.)
I clearly should have just gotten you to pick for me 🤪
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In spite of a lot of terrific selections, I’m a bit surprised that Volny Na Beregu did not make anyone’s list. Don’t be surprised when he shows up in the results as his trainer is certainly no novice!
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He’s one that slipped my notice because he didn’t show up on any of the leaderboards I searched (active SFs, earnings, points, etc.)
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Whoops, I missed that State of the Art had been picked before Sean picked him. Sean can make a replacement pick.
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Sorry about that Dan.


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Bravo!
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That made me laugh.
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I wasn’t quite sure how to find my picks so I went with looking at top Turk workout times from yr 54 yearlings and then compared that to how they were currently running. Then I went through turf stakes races in was 13/14/15 of yr 55. Then I debated putting random names on a wall, throwing darts, and then seeing if the names I hit were actually names in the sim. I mainly used methods one and two though.
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