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Re: Don't discount a Secretariat like performance Saturday - 10 years ago
How about blinkers, turn downs, shadow rolls and tongue ties? Are they "performance enhancers"? If not, why bother with them? How about Lasix? Clearly a race day performance enhancer. Are you also opposed to that?by jerry - Ask the Experts
Re: Don't discount a Secretariat like performance Saturday - 10 years ago
OK. It does make a difference. Now what?by jerry - Ask the Experts
Re: Don't discount a Secretariat like performance Saturday - 10 years ago
A money grab due to increased publicity and handle means lower takeout.by jerry - Ask the Experts
Re: Don't discount a Secretariat like performance Saturday - 10 years ago
JB, how healthy is NY racing or all of racing for that matter? Do you think it would have been smarter for them to have disallowed the strip, risked having the horse pass the race and potentially lose every positive piece of publicity associated with the Triple Crown? Over a freaking bandaid! Imagine if they had. Would you feel better now?by jerry - Ask the Experts
Re: Don't discount a Secretariat like performance Saturday - 10 years ago
Wasn't there also a jockey change with the jump up? How much difference does a jockey make? Tough to quantify.by jerry - Ask the Experts
Re: Interview - 10 years ago
Certainly sounds like a performance enhancer but, strangely, Dr. McIlwraith concludes, "Science has shown that you make it easier for the horse to breathe, but does this enhance performance? I don't think so."by jerry - Ask the Experts
Re: One Last Time - 10 years ago
In the fifth paragraph regarding loss of time and speed around turns you say the wider the horse runs the more time and speed he loses. I understand the loss of time due to the longer running distance, but I don't understand the loss of speed. It seems to me a horse running 25mph in the 2 path is no different from a horse running 25mph in the 4 path. They're both running the same speedby jerry - Ask the Experts
Re: Memories of Big Brown Belmont - 10 years ago
The same reason people still smoke. It feels good even though you know it's bad for you.by jerry - Ask the Experts
Re: Memories of Big Brown Belmont - 10 years ago
He was rank and Desormeaux was trying to rate him. At a mile and half you can't let your horse run off like Big Brown wanted to. Rank horses never do well in the Belmont, not to mention most any other race around 2 turns.by jerry - Ask the Experts
Re: Memories of Big Brown Belmont - 10 years ago
Watch the replay. Big Brown was, in the words of Tom Durkin, plummeting. Despite Desormeaux's encouragement, most of the field had run by him before they even straightened the stretch. He was stopping. Desormeaux knew he had no chance of hitting the board. Why beat a dead horse? I hadn't heard about the Iavarone death threats. Maybe that had something to do with his being eased but, toby jerry - Ask the Experts
Re: Memories of Big Brown Belmont - 10 years ago
BB was a beaten horse by the head of the stretch. Desormeaux did the right thing. Something was wrong with the horse and he was protecting him. Personally, I think it was the steroids off but I'm guessing. It could have been any number of things. As far as Kent or anyone cashing in on the DNF, I know of no wager, or no wager anyone of any means would make on which horse would finish last. Atby jerry - Ask the Experts
Re: Betting after the bell - 10 years ago
Maybe they use the same gimmick the high frequency traders use although a millisecond wouldn't seem to be much of an advantage. I think the pool security is just lax. If the Fix Six crew could pull it off, anybody with a bit more acumen can.by jerry - Ask the Experts
Re: Nasal strip on per Alan Sherman - 10 years ago
Alright. Alright. All true. No mas. Looking forward to the Preakness summary.by jerry - Ask the Experts
Re: Nasal strip on per Alan Sherman - 10 years ago
OK. No more sniping. I probably just got banged around a little too much Saturday and I'm still feeling it. I still doubt the nasal strips are the reason for the jump up. Who knows. Maybe they're really nicotine patches.by jerry - Ask the Experts
Re: Nasal strip on per Alan Sherman - 10 years ago
Your BMI is 27.6. 25-29.9 is overweight. 30 is obese big guy.by jerry - Ask the Experts
Re: Nasal strip on per Alan Sherman - 10 years ago
Sorry. That last comment was rude. I apologize. But drawing a comparison between you're sleeping better and a horse running faster has no place on this bulletin board.by jerry - Ask the Experts
Re: Nasal strip on per Alan Sherman - 10 years ago
Yeah, but you're overweight.by jerry - Ask the Experts
Re: Nasal strip on per Alan Sherman - 10 years ago
Who conducted the study?by jerry - Ask the Experts
Re: Nasal strip on per Alan Sherman - 10 years ago
You do the numbers. You look it up. But, if they're really that potent, why don't more trainers use them and why did trainers stop using them? You've got some investment interests in horses, don't you. Do your trainers use them? Are you going to suggest they start using them?by jerry - Ask the Experts
Re: TG figs today - 10 years ago
This horse hadn't run 3 races in a 30 day span in 3 years.by jerry - Ask the Experts
Re: Nasal strip on per Alan Sherman - 10 years ago
Wrong. These were popular years ago and had so little impact most barns stopped using them. That's your evidence. Saying he jumped forward 11 points and the only equipment change a was a nasal strip and so it must be the nasal strip is really lame reasoning and is denying a lot of what we know about 2yos getting faster at 3.by jerry - Ask the Experts
Re: Nasal strip on per Alan Sherman - 10 years ago
I think you understand my point better than that.by jerry - Ask the Experts
Re: Nasal strip on per Alan Sherman - 10 years ago
It shouldn't have been an issue. NY was on the wrong side of the rule and it took a crisis to fix it. That's usually when things do get fixed.by jerry - Ask the Experts
Re: Nasal strip on per Alan Sherman - 10 years ago
Nasal strips were in vogue a few years ago before their popularity petered out most likely due to efficacy. My take on this is the trainer and owners are old school, superstitious, if it works don't change it types. I don't remember nasal strips having much of a performance impact when they were popular and I don't think they have much to do with CC's current success.by jerry - Ask the Experts
Re: Nasal strip on per Alan Sherman - 10 years ago
If it's a performance enhancer, it seems like a pretty safe one and if it's that good, why don't more trainers use them? Agree with full disclosure of equipment.by jerry - Ask the Experts