The draft

Here are the top fifty picks from the Triple Crown Fantasy League draft that occurred February 11 (two days before the Lewis and Sam F. Davis). My team's first four picks occurred at 12 (Dryfly), 19 (Uptowncharlybrown), 42 (Bulldogger), and 49 (Backtalk).

1. Lookin at Lucky
2. Conveyance
3. Tiz Chrome
4. Buddy's Saint
5. Eskendereya
6. Drosselmeyer
7. Super Saver
8. Rule
9. Jackson Bend
10. American Lion
11. Garrett Gomez
12. Dryfly
13. Ron the Greek
14. John Velazquez
15. Lost Aptitude
16. Maximus Ruler
17. Setsuko
18. Uh Oh Bango
19. Uptowncharlybrown
20. William's Kitten
21. Concord Point
22. Discreetly Mine
23. Tempted to Tapit
24. Stay Put
25. Dave in Dixie
26. Dublin
27. Lentenor
28. A Little Warm
29. Julien Leparoux
30. Colizeo
31. Hotep
32. Noble's Promise
33. Soaring Empire
34. Awesome Act
35. Aikenite
36. Fast Alex
37. Kettle River
38. Pleasant Storm
39. Afleet Express
40. Tahitian Warrior
41. Fly Down
42. Bulldogger
43. Make Music For Me
44. Caracortado
45. Interactif
46. Moojab
47. Homeboykris
48. Nextdoorneighbor
49. Backtalk
50. Silver Craft

The rest of my team is Mendip, Indian Firewater, Classical Slew, Liston, Raging Wit, and our jockey is Robby Albarado.

Given that we didn't have a top ten pick and only two picks in the top 41 (out of 150), I'm fairly happy with our squad. I think Mendip was a nice pick at 72, and it sounds like McLaughlin is high enough on Liston that he was clearly worth it at 132, and I like that our eighth and tenth picks are at least entered in a scoring race right off the rip.

Update after San Vicente: I was excited when Raging Wit was taking ridiculous kinds of money but less excited when he didn't run a step. I think Classical Slew ran OK off the layoff, making a decent middle move and clearly not going to catch runaway Sidney's Candy, a horse my team could have had in round four but didn't take. Here's hoping Backtalk doesn't make us lament that decision.