Biiitch bitch biiiiiiiiitch
I absolutely cannot stand YouTube. No, wait, that's wrong. I absolutely cannot stand the waves and waves of ridiculous copyright claims which are currently plaguing completely benign movie/music fans with accounts on YouTube. Anybody heard of this nonsense? People are getting suspended left and right, and more videos have been removed due to copyright claims in the last few months than in the entire history of YouTube, I'd bet.
And why? Insecurity? That's my guess, because there's no other logical reason to rip all of those perfectly credited videos down off of the servers. You morons who are claiming copyrights, let me simply inform you that you're TOTAL IDIOTS. There is absolutely no harm coming from the videos with your precious artistic creations in them. I myself have become a fan of various movies and bands because of music vidoes created by YouTube members. Others have, too. Therefore, when you force these videos down, you are losing publicity. Get this through your thick, monkey skulls.
They won't, of course. One, because I'm an insignificant speck in the vastness that is the intertubes, and two, because they don't give a crap due to having thick monkey skulls.
Side note: I love free speech.
It's officially 2009, which means I can start SPAZZING OVER THE DERBY AGAIN! >D
Of course, I have a top ten list already. What do you think I am, a slacker?
1. Old Fashioned: I cannot say enough about the Remsen winner. He knows how to fight like a demon, since he had to do so in his debut win, he can come from off the pace and he can put away all challengers right out of the gate. He's... kind of amazing. And beautiful. Also the Cinderella Story of the century if he were to win the Derby or more, seeing as he's sired by Unbridled's Song, trained by Larry Jones and owned by Fox Hill Farms. Sound familiar? Here's a thought: so was Eight Belles.
2. Beethoven: Speaking of fighting like a demon, this guy has never, ever had it easy. Beethoven's had to duke it out in every single one of his starts thus far, and obviously likes Churchill. He's also proven his class by beating Capt. Candyman Can in the Kentucky Jockey Club Stakes, so as long as he steps up his speed figs a bit, love love love love love. His pedigree is also notable in that he's by young sire Sky Mesa, son of Pulpit, inbred to Secretariat through A.P. Indy and Storm Cat. Beethoven himself is also 4x3 to Mr. Prospector, meaning he's got Mr. Prospector 4 generations back on his sire's side and 3 back on his dam's side.
3. Square Eddie: Born and raised in Canada, debuted in Europe and based in America, this is a well-traveled, tough little cookie. He knows how to blow a field away like he did in the Breeders' Futurity, and he fought back hard when he looked well-beaten in the BC Juvenile, ending up beaten only a length and a quarter for all the money. Also, he was sired by this little horse you might have heard of called Smart Strike, only the father of such superstars as Fabulous Strike, English Channel and Curlin. Show me dirt form, and I'm sold.
4. Stardom Bound: Has anyone not seen her? Has anyone not considered her a prime candidate for a Churchill invasion on the gentleman's club? Her way-wide moves on the far turn have earned this grey filly infamy in California, and her style is reminiscent of not one but two recent female superstars: Rags to Riches and Zenyatta. Hell, her barn name is ZJ, short for Zenyatta Junior. Again, though, show me the dirt. Running on rubber is not gonna help you much when you've got mud flying in your face on Derby day. She's a Tapit baby, though, and we just have to hope Tapit babies don't have such an annoying tendency to putter out before Derby day as Pulpit babies do.
5. Donativum: The little English grey has a real shot at invading Kentucky. In the BC Juvenile Turf he was out of it on the far turn, then shot through a tiny hole and closed furiously in the final sixteenth, practically breathing fire the way he was running at the end. This is another one that doesn't run from a fight. Interesting pedigree nugget: the closest name I recognized in his entire pedigree was Nijinsky, four generations back. That might have a lot to do with his lineage being European, but still. Even the Euros tend to have a lot of names I know, and he doesn't. Too bad he's a gelding, or Donny boy would be a phenomenal outcross stud to stand here. Of course, his being a gelding is the only reason he's being considered for the Derby at all, since the European Classics are only open to horses capable of making babies. Whatever.
6. Vineyard Haven: I've got one word to explain why he's this low on the list: DUBAI. Never, not once has a three-year-old trained in Dubai shipped to the States and won the Derby. Why? No, not because they're not good enough. Because they've just freakin' traveled around the freakin' world and then his ever-so-highness Sheik Mo expects them to instantly adapt and not flip out at having just flown over an ocean. They're BABIES, your most graciousful eminence, and I think you've already proven it doesn't work. Also, stop buying the cream of our crop and ruining them. STOP THAT, I SAY. >CCCC *whispers Numaany*
Besides my obvious distaste for the Sheik's methods, however, Haven's a very talented colt who smashed all comers during the Saratoga meet. He's got a very interesting, mainly Chilean pedigree and is also 4x4 to Mr. Prospector. I only pray he has no particular aversion to travel.
7. Midshipman: Duuuubaaaaiiiiiiii. Also, total lack of dirt form. Hence the low placement, and the placement below Vineyard Haven. Talented, talented, talented; another fighter, as well. Another son of Unbridled's Song, and this one a complete outcross (no inbreeding), which is gonna make him pretty interesting to breeders later on. But unfortunately he's halfway around the world. -__________-
8. Giant Oak: Possible sleeper. How could I not like a colt that ran Beethoven within a neck of defeat? Granted, other colts have also gotten close to Beethoven, seeing as that one's had to fight for all of his victories, but Giant Oak impressed me most finishing second in the Jockey Club. He didn't have that great a trip, and even though Beethoven was getting away from him late, this flashy-looking thing was still fighting. I imagine some good conditioning and better luck will improve him greatly. Oh, and also, GIANT'S CAUSEWAY BABY! >D I love them so. Iron horse genes, yes? Inbred 4x4 to Northern Dancer, which can only be a good thing.
9. Imperial Council: OKAY, FINE, JEEZ. Yeah, he's gorgeous, has a perfect pedigree (son of Empire Maker, 4x4 to Mr. Prospector, direct descendant of Storm Bird through Thunder Gulch and Secretariat through Risen Star) and holycrapwtfmaidenwin. Yeah, the second-place horse in his maiden came back to run third in the Remsen stakes, and the third-place horse won his next two and is highly regarded as a Derby threat. ALL RIGHT, handicapping-type-journalists. SHADDUP ABOUT HIM, OKAY? I love racehorses. I love hearing about racehorses, reading about racehorses. But whenever there's this much hype about a horse who has yet to start in a stakes race, they turn out mediocre. Maybe I'll be eating my words in May, but... anybody remember Maimonides? LITTLE EDIT: I did realize that, yes, Curlin was one such horse at one time. But that was one out of how many? Plus, Curlin's maiden was a different sort of domination which I won't describe in detail, but it began with the fact that he was under a hold while easing away from competition around the far turn. The only horse on this list who has done that is at number one.
10. Uno Mas: Since I gotta pick an unknown for at least one spot. Well, okay, he's not entirely unknown since demolishing Friesan Fire, who I do also like, in a one-mile allowance at the Fair Grounds. Also, the 4x4 to Ta Wee could prove absolutely brilliant. By the way, to non-crazy-horse-people, that means that he's got the exceptional matriarch Ta Wee as a great-great-grandmother on both sides of his pedigree. On his dam's side, it's actually directly up the maternal line, meaning his mother's mother's mother's mother was Ta Wee. Also, Ta Wee is herself 4x5 to Man O' War and a direct descendent of La Troienne through Bimelech, a near-miss loser of the Triple Crown. I think my favourite thing about Uno Mas, though, is how awesome it would sound if he won the Derby and the Preakness. Come belmont time, everybody chanting "Uno Mas! Uno Mas!" would be bloody hilarious, and remarkably fitting.
YES THOSE ARE MY TWO CENTS. SPEND THEM WISELY.
And why? Insecurity? That's my guess, because there's no other logical reason to rip all of those perfectly credited videos down off of the servers. You morons who are claiming copyrights, let me simply inform you that you're TOTAL IDIOTS. There is absolutely no harm coming from the videos with your precious artistic creations in them. I myself have become a fan of various movies and bands because of music vidoes created by YouTube members. Others have, too. Therefore, when you force these videos down, you are losing publicity. Get this through your thick, monkey skulls.
They won't, of course. One, because I'm an insignificant speck in the vastness that is the intertubes, and two, because they don't give a crap due to having thick monkey skulls.
Side note: I love free speech.
It's officially 2009, which means I can start SPAZZING OVER THE DERBY AGAIN! >D
Of course, I have a top ten list already. What do you think I am, a slacker?
1. Old Fashioned: I cannot say enough about the Remsen winner. He knows how to fight like a demon, since he had to do so in his debut win, he can come from off the pace and he can put away all challengers right out of the gate. He's... kind of amazing. And beautiful. Also the Cinderella Story of the century if he were to win the Derby or more, seeing as he's sired by Unbridled's Song, trained by Larry Jones and owned by Fox Hill Farms. Sound familiar? Here's a thought: so was Eight Belles.
2. Beethoven: Speaking of fighting like a demon, this guy has never, ever had it easy. Beethoven's had to duke it out in every single one of his starts thus far, and obviously likes Churchill. He's also proven his class by beating Capt. Candyman Can in the Kentucky Jockey Club Stakes, so as long as he steps up his speed figs a bit, love love love love love. His pedigree is also notable in that he's by young sire Sky Mesa, son of Pulpit, inbred to Secretariat through A.P. Indy and Storm Cat. Beethoven himself is also 4x3 to Mr. Prospector, meaning he's got Mr. Prospector 4 generations back on his sire's side and 3 back on his dam's side.
3. Square Eddie: Born and raised in Canada, debuted in Europe and based in America, this is a well-traveled, tough little cookie. He knows how to blow a field away like he did in the Breeders' Futurity, and he fought back hard when he looked well-beaten in the BC Juvenile, ending up beaten only a length and a quarter for all the money. Also, he was sired by this little horse you might have heard of called Smart Strike, only the father of such superstars as Fabulous Strike, English Channel and Curlin. Show me dirt form, and I'm sold.
4. Stardom Bound: Has anyone not seen her? Has anyone not considered her a prime candidate for a Churchill invasion on the gentleman's club? Her way-wide moves on the far turn have earned this grey filly infamy in California, and her style is reminiscent of not one but two recent female superstars: Rags to Riches and Zenyatta. Hell, her barn name is ZJ, short for Zenyatta Junior. Again, though, show me the dirt. Running on rubber is not gonna help you much when you've got mud flying in your face on Derby day. She's a Tapit baby, though, and we just have to hope Tapit babies don't have such an annoying tendency to putter out before Derby day as Pulpit babies do.
5. Donativum: The little English grey has a real shot at invading Kentucky. In the BC Juvenile Turf he was out of it on the far turn, then shot through a tiny hole and closed furiously in the final sixteenth, practically breathing fire the way he was running at the end. This is another one that doesn't run from a fight. Interesting pedigree nugget: the closest name I recognized in his entire pedigree was Nijinsky, four generations back. That might have a lot to do with his lineage being European, but still. Even the Euros tend to have a lot of names I know, and he doesn't. Too bad he's a gelding, or Donny boy would be a phenomenal outcross stud to stand here. Of course, his being a gelding is the only reason he's being considered for the Derby at all, since the European Classics are only open to horses capable of making babies. Whatever.
6. Vineyard Haven: I've got one word to explain why he's this low on the list: DUBAI. Never, not once has a three-year-old trained in Dubai shipped to the States and won the Derby. Why? No, not because they're not good enough. Because they've just freakin' traveled around the freakin' world and then his ever-so-highness Sheik Mo expects them to instantly adapt and not flip out at having just flown over an ocean. They're BABIES, your most graciousful eminence, and I think you've already proven it doesn't work. Also, stop buying the cream of our crop and ruining them. STOP THAT, I SAY. >CCCC *whispers Numaany*
Besides my obvious distaste for the Sheik's methods, however, Haven's a very talented colt who smashed all comers during the Saratoga meet. He's got a very interesting, mainly Chilean pedigree and is also 4x4 to Mr. Prospector. I only pray he has no particular aversion to travel.
7. Midshipman: Duuuubaaaaiiiiiiii. Also, total lack of dirt form. Hence the low placement, and the placement below Vineyard Haven. Talented, talented, talented; another fighter, as well. Another son of Unbridled's Song, and this one a complete outcross (no inbreeding), which is gonna make him pretty interesting to breeders later on. But unfortunately he's halfway around the world. -__________-
8. Giant Oak: Possible sleeper. How could I not like a colt that ran Beethoven within a neck of defeat? Granted, other colts have also gotten close to Beethoven, seeing as that one's had to fight for all of his victories, but Giant Oak impressed me most finishing second in the Jockey Club. He didn't have that great a trip, and even though Beethoven was getting away from him late, this flashy-looking thing was still fighting. I imagine some good conditioning and better luck will improve him greatly. Oh, and also, GIANT'S CAUSEWAY BABY! >D I love them so. Iron horse genes, yes? Inbred 4x4 to Northern Dancer, which can only be a good thing.
9. Imperial Council: OKAY, FINE, JEEZ. Yeah, he's gorgeous, has a perfect pedigree (son of Empire Maker, 4x4 to Mr. Prospector, direct descendant of Storm Bird through Thunder Gulch and Secretariat through Risen Star) and holycrapwtfmaidenwin. Yeah, the second-place horse in his maiden came back to run third in the Remsen stakes, and the third-place horse won his next two and is highly regarded as a Derby threat. ALL RIGHT, handicapping-type-journalists. SHADDUP ABOUT HIM, OKAY? I love racehorses. I love hearing about racehorses, reading about racehorses. But whenever there's this much hype about a horse who has yet to start in a stakes race, they turn out mediocre. Maybe I'll be eating my words in May, but... anybody remember Maimonides? LITTLE EDIT: I did realize that, yes, Curlin was one such horse at one time. But that was one out of how many? Plus, Curlin's maiden was a different sort of domination which I won't describe in detail, but it began with the fact that he was under a hold while easing away from competition around the far turn. The only horse on this list who has done that is at number one.
10. Uno Mas: Since I gotta pick an unknown for at least one spot. Well, okay, he's not entirely unknown since demolishing Friesan Fire, who I do also like, in a one-mile allowance at the Fair Grounds. Also, the 4x4 to Ta Wee could prove absolutely brilliant. By the way, to non-crazy-horse-people, that means that he's got the exceptional matriarch Ta Wee as a great-great-grandmother on both sides of his pedigree. On his dam's side, it's actually directly up the maternal line, meaning his mother's mother's mother's mother was Ta Wee. Also, Ta Wee is herself 4x5 to Man O' War and a direct descendent of La Troienne through Bimelech, a near-miss loser of the Triple Crown. I think my favourite thing about Uno Mas, though, is how awesome it would sound if he won the Derby and the Preakness. Come belmont time, everybody chanting "Uno Mas! Uno Mas!" would be bloody hilarious, and remarkably fitting.
YES THOSE ARE MY TWO CENTS. SPEND THEM WISELY.