Cheerleader of the Week: Illinois' Kristina Marie Anderson
25.02.10
Name: Kristina Marie Anderson
Hometown: Garrett, Illinois
Boarding School: The University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Year: Senior
Primary: Community Health: Health Administration and Planning
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I love my school, but I failed to Arizona State University: I m living in Scottsdale, Arizona and is absolutely beautiful. I would not change how my life has planned for the world today.I love the University of Illinois, it is so varied, dotted with numerous opportunities for education and life experiences and conditions magnificent.
My best physical feature is: My feet. I probably get pedicures every two weeks because I indigence to wear 4 inch heels to work all day and run as much.
Source: SI.com
Countdown to the Crown - Feb 27th, 2010
27.02.10
3 things you won't know anywhere else
Opinions are like the two-man bobsled. To be effective, you not only need a good overburden, but you also need to make sure it's steered with the proper direction.
1. Before you cashier speedy CONVEYANCE (Bob Baffert) from Derby consideration, consider this: Since 2000, only three horses in the Derby pasture were brilliant enough to win a pair of graded stakes races around two turns among the first four starts of their careers -- Curlin, Barbaro and Tapit. That's somewhat darned good company for the San Rafael and Southwest champ. During the whole decade of the 1990s, only one Derby starter, 1995 runner-up Tejano Run, could boast such pioneer two-turn graded stakes success. Those runners own a 4: 1-1-1 look at on the first Saturday in May.
2. It takes more than two to tango in a speed duel, the waltz in last Saturday's Risen Eminent proved that once again. If one other jockey decides to take back, the pace is pedestrian. The connections of DISCREETLY MINE (Todd Pletcher) can send a thanks-you card to David Cohen on TEMPTED TO TAPIT (Steve Klesaris) for that. It has to be illustrious that Todd Pletcher has resurrected Cohen's career this winter at Aqueduct, so you have to stupefaction if the young rider wasn't too eager to incinerate the pace chances of his biggest gaffer. That's not a conspiracy theory, that's just good business. And, he gave his mount the A- chance to light the board as 'TAPIT jogged along second throughout.
Source: Daily Racing News