Speed Blue

Brilliant Speed Rallies from Last to First to Upset the Blue Grass Stakes

The 2011 Kentucky Derby picture became no clearer as 20-1 Brilliant Speed came from last to first to get up in the final stride to nose out Twinspired in Saturday's Grade 1, $750,000 Toyota Blue Grass Stakes at Keeneland.

It didn't appear at first as though jockey Joel Rosario purposely elected to take him back, but Brilliant Speed simply found himself at the back of a compact field as they made their way into the first turn. The pace was very slow, with the opening quarter going in 25:14, a pace that would be almost impossible to close into if this were run on regular dirt. But on polytrack, it is easier for horses to win from behind even when the pace is dawdling.

Even so, Rosario was surely breathing a sigh of relief as he timed it just perfectly, so perfectly in fact, that if he had hesitated even a moment longer nearing the turn into the stretch to make his move, he likely would have missed. At the sixteenth pole, it was down to the gray Twinspired, King Congie, and Brilliant Speed closing fast on the outside. It took several minutes to resolve the photo finish but it did show that Brilliant Speed prevailed, but by no more than an inch.

The winning time over Keeneland's synthetic surface was 150.92. The winner is a three-year-old son of Dynaformer. The winner's share of $450,000 qualifies him for a spot in the Kentucky Derby lineup on May 7th.

Coming off a nice second place finish in the G2 Risen Star, Santiva went off as the 2-1 favorite, but could manage no better than ninth place.

Santiva was in traffic much of the race and never threatened, but he shouldn't be dismissed so easily on the basis of this one race. After all, he does have a G2 win in the Kentucky Jockey Club, which he won at Churchill as a two-year-old, and the Kentucky Derby isn't going to be run on a synthetic track as it was today.

Many horseplayers will tell you to simply disregard the results of the Blue Grass Stakesbecause of the enormous contrast between running on polytrack vs. natural dirt, and just judge the entrants based on how they have done on the natural dirt.

Following Brilliant Speed and Twinspired were long shots King Congie and Newsdad. The odds of these horses were 19-1, 24-1, 13-1, and 18-1. None of the top seven betting choices could manage to finish in the top four spots. As a result, the $1 superfecta paid $64,546, and the dime superfecta paid $6,454!

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Slow Running Computer Fix - One Solution To Make Your Computer Fast Again

If your computer speed has slowed down considerably over the past few months it can become very frustrating getting anything done. Waiting for a program to run or a file to open on your computer is can quite literally drive you to distraction becuase your brain is working at a faster speed to the computer and this ultimately leads to lose of focus and poor productivity. Unfortunately it is inevitable that your computer's speed will slow down with time. Here is a slow computer fix that you can use to get the speed back and reduce your symptoms of attention deficit disorder.

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Most computers slow with age just like an organic creature might slow with time. Over time they fill up with data. The data gets amended and deleted. New data is added. Some files are corrupted by viruses or adware. And so the life of your computer goes on, gradually filling up it's memory with plenty of stuff that may be used or may just be junk that is never used. Your once immaculate computer degrades to something akin to a digital car junkyard with rusty old car doors, flat tires and bent crankshafts littered all over the place.

So the key to getting the speed back is to have a big clear out. A spring clean in fact. However as your PC gets used probably everyday, ou need to clean it up more than once a year. More like once a month or quarter.

You can do much of this cleaning yourself. Removing programs that are rarely if ever used is a good idea, especially if they are launched on start up, and will do wonders for your computer's performance. Get a regular routine where you uninstall programs that are not used. Clean out the desktop if it is jam packed with icons.

If you use a Windows operating system then it is advisable to clean the registry database too. This is a file that the operating system uses to find the locations of various files, programs and setting on your computer. This will also become corrupted as the computer ages. If it gives the processor poor information then it is almost ineviatable that the computer will get slow or even freeze or crash.

You can clean the registry manually but this is not the best use of your time when software can be used that can do the same job that could take you hours in a few minutes.

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Can the police break the speed limit without blue lights?

...and does the same apply to both marked and unmarked police cars?

As far as speeding is concerned, Section 87 Road Traffic Regulation Act 1984 says:No statutory provision imposing a speed limit on motor vehicles shall apply to any vehicle on an occasion when it is being used for fire brigade, ambulance or police purposes, if the observance of that provision would be likely to hinder the use of the vehicle for the purpose for which it is being used on that occasion.

Police vehicles, whether marked or unmarked, are exempt from virtually all road traffic laws as long as to break them is operationally necessary.

What that means is dependent on the circumstances and in each case that a police driver breaches a traffic law he or she may have to justify doing so, especially if there has been an accident.

Ignore all of the interjections from our USA contributors - quite clearly the laws are different out there.

NAS Jax Air Show will continue to affect naval aviation on First Coast (Florida Times-Union)

That naval aviation has a major impact on the First Coast will become loud and
clear this weekend when the Blue Angels and their supersonic F/A-18 Hornets
perform at the NAS Jax Air Show.

Those who work or live on the St. Johns River in Ortega, San Marco and the
Southside regularly see, hear and feel that presence as flights of Navy
helicopters, patrol planes and occasionally jets making their high-speed runs
to and from the Westside air station.

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