| By clue 1, Easy Ed finished one place ahead of the thoroughbred from One Oak
Stable, which finished one place ahead of Geraldo Riviera's mount. By
clue 5, Sloefoot Sid finished one place ahead of the horse ridden by Edgar
Louvre, which finished one place ahead of the Rolling Hills Stable entry.
If there were overlap between the clues, either Geraldo Riviera would have
ridden Sloefoot Sid--which he did not (clue 8)--or Easy Ed would be the
Rolling Hills entry--by clues 2 and 9, no. Therefore, six of the eight
horses in the Breakneck Stakes are mentioned between clues 1 and 5. By
clue 11, Fleet Festus finished one place ahead of Pat Knight's ride, which
finished one place ahead of the Newmown Field Stable's thoroughbred. So,
there must be overlap between clue 11 and either clue 1 or clue 5. If there
were overlap between clues 1 and 11, either Geraldo Riviera would have ridden
Fleet Festus--no (8)--or Easy Ed would belong to Newmown Field Stable--no
(2, 9). Trying overlap between clues 5 and 11, by clue 15, the Rolling Hills
horse isn't Fleet Festus and wasn't ridden by Pat Knight; while by clue 14,
Edgar Louvre didn't ride the Newmown Field entry. The only possible overlap
is that Sloefoot Sid is the Newmown Field thoroughbred. So, between clues 5
and 11 we have five horses who placed consecutively, with the other three
entries listed in order of finish in clue 1. Then either Easy Ed in clue 1
or Fleet Festus in clue 11 won the Breakneck Stakes. If Easy Ed had won, the
order of finish in the race would have been Easy Ed, the One Oak Stable entry,
the horse ridden by Geraldo Riviera, Fleet Festus, Pat Knight's ride, Sloefoot
Sid from Newmown Field Stable, Edgar Louvre's mount, and the Rolling Hills
Stable entry. By clue 3, the three horses that finished win-place-show
(1st-2nd-3rd) in some order are Willing Willie. Steven Gary's mount, and the
Still Water Stable entry. Since the Still Water Stable silks are orange and
black (2), by clue 9, Easy Ed would have been ridden by Steven Gary, Geraldo
Riviera would have ridden the Still Water thoroughbred, and Willing Willie
would be One Oak's prize horse. By clue 7, then, Geraldo Riviera would have
ridden Blazing Bob and the Deep Grass Stable entry would have been Fleet
Festus--no (13). Therefore, Easy Ed in clue 1 did not win the Breakneck
Stakes; Fleet Festus in clue 11 did. The order of finish in the race from
clues 11, 5, and 1 then was Fleet Festus, Pat Knight's mount, Newmown Field
Stable's Sloefoot Sid, the horse ridden by Edgar Louvre, the Rolling Hills
Stable entry, Easy Ed, the One Oak Stable horse, and Geraldo Riviera's ride.
By clue 3, the three horses that finished win-place-show (1st-2nd-3rd) in some
order are Willing Willie. Steven Gary's mount, and the Still Water Stable
entry; so Willing Willie was ridden by Pat Knight, the Still Water Stable
entry was Fleet Festus, and Steven Gary rode Sloefoot Sid. By clue 7,
Blazing Bob finished one place ahead of the Deep Grass Stable entry, so
Blazing Bob is either the One Oak Stable or Rolling Hills Stable thoroughbred.
If Blazing Bob were the One Oak entry, Deep Grass Stable's horse would have
been ridden by Geraldo Riviera (7). By clue 6, the Tall Cedars Stable entry
would have been Easy Ed. Then Long Reach Stable's jockey would have been
Edgar Louvre, with Raoul Julio riding for Rolling Hills Stable (10).
However, there is no way for clue 12 to now work. In clue 7, then, Blazing Bob
is the Rolling Hills Stable horse, with Easy Ed the Deep Grass entry. By
clue 10, the Long Reach Stable entry was ridden by Edgar Louvre and Blazing Bob
by Raoul Julio. Kent Saddler rode Xciting Xavier for One Oak Stable (12). By
clue 6, Rambling Ray was entered in the Breakneck by Long Reach Stable, while
the Tall Cedars entry finished last. Bill Bootmaker rode Easy Ed and Juan
Valdez won the race aboard Fleet Festus (4). By elimination, Willing Willie
was entered by Green Acres Stable and Zephyr Zeke by Tall Cedars. In sum, the
order of finish in the 2006 Breakneck Stakes is
- Fleet Festus, Still Water Stable, Juan Valdez
- Willing Willie, Green Acres Stable, Pat Knight
- Sloefoot Sid, Newmown Field Stable, Steven Gary
- Rambling Ray, Long Reach Stable, Edgar Louvre
- Blazing Bob, Rolling Hills Stable, Raoul Julio
- Easy Ed, Deep Grass Stable, Bill Bootmaker
- Xciting Xavier, One Oak Stable, Kent Saddler
- Zephyr Zeke, Tall Cedars Stable, Geraldo Riviera
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