It’s that time: time to try to bolster your lead or make a move on the leader by adding a couple of horses to your charity league stable.
Najja and Brian Hoffacker dueled on the front end before ceding the lead to last year’s winner John Perotti and a hard-charging Kay Marie Patterson. Alan Denkenson looms boldly. (Leaderboard)
As indicated when we got started last month, you can add one Group D and one Group E horse to your stable. I think I’m going to have to get pretty chalky if I want to make a move this year.
You can find the leaderboard, the stable lists, and the horse groupings here; your stables need to be updated by this Friday at 6pm Eastern time. Please post your picks in the comments below or on Twitter, tagging @BklynBckstretch & @MikeDorr77.
For your convenience (groups are also listed on the league spreadsheet):
Group D: American Pharoah, Carpe Diem, Dortmund, International Star, El Kabeir, Firing Line, Upstart, Itsaknockout, War Story, Prospect Park, Dubai Sky, Far Righ.
Group E: Conquest Typhoon, Madefromlucky, Far From Over, Ami’s Flatter, Bold Conuest, Mr Z, Frosted, Classy Class, Keen Ice, The Truth or Else, Ocho Ocho Ocho, Daredevil plus all others
Thanks to those of you have already sent in pledge money, and no worries if you haven’t. You can wait until we have a winner and send me a check that’s made out to the charity’s name, so that I can send all the checks in together; you can also send me a blank check now (if you’re comfortable doing that) and I’ll fill in the charity’s name later. This way, you know where the money goes, and you get the tax deduction.
Feel free to leave a comment or e-mail (contact info here) with any questions…Good luck!
Brooklyn Backstretch 
Group D – Upstart
Group E – Conquest Typhoon
Group D – Dortmund
Group E – Maftool
thank you! my adds are:
Group D: American Pharoah
Group E: TIz Shea D
Adding at players’ request:
Mark Hennig: Dortmund, Far From Over
Jesse Hearin: Dortmund, Far From Over
Mikey: Dortmund, Firing Line
Rogue Apostrophe: American Pharoah, Far From Over
Alan Denkenson: American Pharoah, Far From Over
I’ll add International Star & Frammento.
D: Dubai sky
e: tiz Shea D
Phil:
D – American Pharoah
E – Far From Over
D American Pharoah
E Conquest Typhoon
Group D War Story
Group E Mubtaahij
D: International Star
E: Mr. Z
D: Itsaknockout
E: Mr. Z
D: Firing Line
E: Ocho Ocho Ocho
My adds
D: American Pharoah
E: Far From Over
D: Firing Line
E: Mr. Z
D: International Star
E: War Story
Ugh. Didnt see War Story in Group D….
E: Classy Class
So just to confirm, Dave, you want International Star and Classy Class, right?
American Pharoah Far from over
Group D: Dortmund
Group E: Materiality
Group D: International Star.
Group E: Mubtaahij.
Group D: Carpe Diem
Group E: Far From Over
D: Dortmund
E: Far From Over (Although I might have added Kentuckian, but he’s not on the list!)
Is he TC nominated?
D: Dortmund
E: Far From Over
John Perotti: Dortmund, Far from Over
Nijinsky: Dortmund, Stanford
Ed DeRosa selects Dortmund & Mr. Z
Horses are:
Group D: El Kabeir
Group E: Far From Over
Prospect Park and Mr. Z
Brian N
American Pharoah & Materiality
El Kabeir & Madefromlucky
American Pharoah, Bolo
American Pharoah, Ami’s Flatter
Prospect Park, Mr Z. Sorry for the lateness!