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Re: Year 56 Turf Route Fantasy — DRAFT THREAD
Posted: Sat Jun 13, 2020 6:40 pm
by T.D. Palm
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.
Now you tell me !!!!
Re: Year 56 Turf Route Fantasy — DRAFT THREAD
Posted: Sat Jun 13, 2020 6:52 pm
by Lisa Bennert
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
) are placing them in those graded stakes with softer Competition to rack up those Points
Re: Year 56 Turf Route Fantasy — DRAFT THREAD
Posted: Sat Jun 13, 2020 7:11 pm
by Rochelle Bos
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!
Re: Year 56 Turf Route Fantasy — DRAFT THREAD
Posted: Sat Jun 13, 2020 7:17 pm
by Lisa Bennert
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
Re: Year 56 Turf Route Fantasy — DRAFT THREAD
Posted: Sat Jun 13, 2020 7:27 pm
by Rochelle Bos
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
Re: Year 56 Turf Route Fantasy — DRAFT THREAD
Posted: Sun Jun 14, 2020 12:30 am
by Sten Rino Haakonsen
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
Re: Year 56 Turf Route Fantasy — DRAFT THREAD
Posted: Sun Jun 14, 2020 4:33 am
by Dan Kauffman
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.)
Re: Year 56 Turf Route Fantasy — DRAFT THREAD
Posted: Sun Jun 14, 2020 9:07 am
by Rochelle Bos
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
Re: Year 56 Turf Route Fantasy — DRAFT THREAD
Posted: Sun Jun 14, 2020 10:23 am
by Nick Gilmore
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!
Re: Year 56 Turf Route Fantasy — DRAFT THREAD
Posted: Sun Jun 14, 2020 10:39 am
by Dan Kauffman
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.)
Re: Year 56 Turf Route Fantasy — DRAFT THREAD
Posted: Sun Jun 14, 2020 10:40 am
by Dan Kauffman
Whoops, I missed that State of the Art had been picked before Sean picked him. Sean can make a replacement pick.
Re: Year 56 Turf Route Fantasy — DRAFT THREAD
Posted: Sun Jun 14, 2020 12:37 pm
by Sean Gallagher
Sorry about that Dan.
Volny Na Beregu
Re: Year 56 Turf Route Fantasy — DRAFT THREAD
Posted: Sun Jun 14, 2020 12:44 pm
by Nick Gilmore
Bravo!
Re: Year 56 Turf Route Fantasy — DRAFT THREAD
Posted: Sun Jun 14, 2020 1:00 pm
by Dan Kauffman
That made me laugh.
Re: Year 56 Turf Route Fantasy — DRAFT THREAD
Posted: Sun Jun 14, 2020 6:26 pm
by Noel Collins
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.
always took me an annoying amount of time haha I don’t know TR! glad the hard part is over! 