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I was also at Keeneland that day and Smile Happy looked like a carousel horse coming down the lane....he had NO answer to the winner. Maybe underneath in the super.
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Unfortunately, there are a lot of 'Lance Armstrongs' in this business. I'm not confused about that.
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I don't disagree with you at all. I just meant that his pedigree wouldn't pose a problem. I view SoCal racing, these days, as a hot house environment. Top notch outfits have left there, ceding the place to Baffert. He took full advantage of it.
So be it.
I realize that conventional wisdom, which is wisdom for a reason, would hold that this horse had the easiest time of it in
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Does it matter where a horse is bred when it has Fappiano top and bottom of the sire pedigree and Mr. Prospector top and bottom of the dam pedigree? And multiple graded stakes horses throughout the pedigree?
I think not.
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Is Mo Donegal a bounce candidate? I don't see how the horse isn't just that. Plus, TAP has a fairly deep history of cranking them for the preps and then going flat in the big race. I'll pass on the horse.
I'm more interested in what this group thinks of Baffert's SA Derby winner. I don't give a damn who they LIST as trainer....can a horse with such a lack of s
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Test positive for what? There are two significant medications that cannot be detected. Does it matter if Baffert's horse hasn't had a positive?
No.
But it won't matter in this case.....that horse won a typical SoCal hothouse race and will not likely bring it with him to Kentucky.
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Brad Cox is a god....possibly the greatest trainer ever.
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The TG seminar got the Wood 'right enough'? I'm not complaining....it's horse racing after all.
But the seminar said MoDonegal was a "bet against." Or did I misread that?
While I'm at it, Chad had better than a 'good day' at Keeneland. That horse closed into a modest pace and made up impressive ground in the last eighth. Talk about quickenin
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The only advantage that horses have, moving up from Florida this time of year, is climate. They should like the colder weather. Easier to breathe.
Having said that, Morello took a big step forward off his layoff and will be very tough if he moves forward again, if only a modest amount. His main competition should come from Early Voting with a similar pattern and Golden Code who has improved
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It didn't take a lot of research to find the site below. This is a description of the benefits of SGF 1000, which is the illegal pharmaceutical used by Navarro, Servis, and apparently many others.
Please give this a read. I'm mostly interested in seeing what you think about the drug. And whether there is any reason not to give it to horses of all breeds. It may be a PED or it may
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You may be right, but several of Baffert's horses (and mostly favorites) have recently run off the board outside the SoCal jurisdiction.
Was he helping them less while under scrutiny? Oaklawn would be one place that he has had to be extra careful....no?
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Shipsational over Happy Boy Rocket, Classic Causeway and Giant Game.
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An extreme example of this happened at the Breeders Cup in 2013. Baffert was skunked for 2 days, including with Game on Dude in the Classic. My only claim to fame, as a participant in the BC Betting Challenge, was at the table with other players. Where I forecast on Friday that none of Baffert's entries had the best numbers in any race, especially GOD. The only significant bet I hit was
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Apparently Baffert couldn't take any chances at Oaklawn....that horse was probably scrubbed clean of anything that might result in new charges and accusations. In fact, this may prove to be the case wherever he enters a horse outside of his safe SoCal home. Keep an eye on it and bet accordingly.
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No one can be faulted for liking Newgrange in this race…..Baffert has 8 wins….the horse is undefeated and so on. But there are two others in here that have compelling stories and certainly will have a lot more value.
If you give Chasing Time credit for his short races, credit that is for having some speed, but concentrate on his longer 7 and 8 furlong races, in which he dominated and had clos
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He got lucky....no one seriously challenges his horse and the good one from France misses by an inch. I had Brown in that one because I always bet the horses who win at the big French or Irish tracks (or Ascot).....have hit many BC grass races without any serious handicapping, doing that.
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Yeah, I could shoot myself over that one....Cox claims he races them on grass at the start if he doesn't think they are dirt sprinters. What fooled me with that one was her multiple races on grass. I misread it thinking that he believed that was where she belonged and had given up and opted for dirt in desperation.
Fool me once.
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Epicenter, the winner was one of 3 with superior and almost equal speed coming into the race. Also, the ONLY runner with a recent race. He won, probably moving forward nicely from his previous race, but the conditioning issue may temper the relevance of this race for him.
Zandon ran, with a previous number almost equal to Epicenter. But with a long layoff. His next race will be defining.
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The best times I ever had at an OTB was the restaurant version on 2nd Avenue. A lot of us were regulars and we had a lot of fun between races, betting who knew the most about various Broadway shows -- and other trivia. My most memorable day involved the waitress asking if another person could sit at my two top, because there were no other seats available. I said "sure" and she brough
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Nicely bred horse. If he comes to KY they need to put him in a 24 hour surveilled stall. Doing that stopped Drug O'Neill.
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The Bengals coaching staff formed a new defensive game plan at halftime against the Chiefs and almost completely shut them down. They've got a big edge in coaching. They should win.
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When the 'wiretap' case got underway I think most of us believed that it would reveal that evidence of the cheating problem would spread well beyond the two most recognized criminals (that's what they are). I was still naïve, however, in not thinking that it would draw the Arabs in with it. When you have unlimited money and are breeding the best to the best, do you also need to b
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I've got a funny story about a horse named Finders Fortune, which was trained by Darrell Vienna in the early 90's....this was a down the hill specialist at SA, who was never as good on the flat as he was running that very special course.
In the mid 90's I was visiting a farm down past Oceanside and met Vienna, who had some horses laid up there. He walked me over to a small padd
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I honor your involvement and effort regarding this problem. I sincerely do, but two things:
First, when I said they discussed it in the open, that includes telephone calls, texts, 'Juice Man' shoes, etc. Lance Armstrong never did anything that stupid.
Second, money makes the world go round. A lot of people are in on all these crappy schemes and as long as they all profit from t
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They didn't 'catch' Navarro and Servis through testing for SGF 1000, because it couldn't be detected. They 'caught' them because they were stupid enough to brag about it or talk about it in the open.
So maybe Baffert is smart enough NOT to talk about it?
I have no idea and no knowledge, but it was clear that the first two were cheating to everyone who gave i
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I wish I could say something funny about this. Bute overages? Bute with legs of its own? This ain't lidocaine, baby.
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I've had a NYRA account for a long time. Am I able to convert it to be a TGPS account?
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Navarro was always the most obvious one....he made himself the greatest horse trainer of all time, if you judged trainers by their win percentages and turn arounds with losers. But my friends in racing won't really sit up and take notice until Servis goes down, because none of them think he's a bad guy.
In some ways, he is the worst guy....a nice, respected horseman who was known fo
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