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10-20-2010, 07:04 PM
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The Golden Syringe Award
The Eclipse Award for outstanding trainer is pretty bunk in that it's basically an award given to the trainer with the best stock ... and no more than about four trainers each year have any realistic shot at winning it. Several hundred different trainers would have probably nailed it down this year with Pletcher's stock.
To win the Golden Syringe ... you must simply have the highest win percentage in the nation while winning at least 50 races and maintaining a profitable ROI for the year. To win at a scary high percentage - you do have to stuff horses in and take no prisoners. Take Joe Woodard for instance. He's winning at 27.25% this year from over 800 starters. However, his ROI is just $1.36 - meaning he's losing 32% on every betting dollar ... double the takeout. He's basically winning at a high clip while bankrupting bettors. In theory, it should be extremely difficult to have both a sky high win percentage and a profitable ROI in the same year - with volume. This is because horses from sky high win % barns are chronically over bet on paper. Someone like Juan Carlos Guerrero could run a goat with a horrid form and it would still take surprising money. Without further ado: 2010 Golden Syringe Award Race 1st: Juan Carlos Guerrero (40.72%) 2nd: Brad Cox (31.54%) 3rd: Rudy Rodriguez (29.71%) Past Champions: 2009 Keith Bennett (32.69%) - <-- Jamie Ness had 32.82% with $1.99 ROI 2008 Wayne Catalano (36.59%) - <-- Mike Maker checked in 2nd - Marty Wolfson $1.98 ROI cost him 2007 Kevin Lewis (32.09%) - Jamie Ness 2nd and Mike Maker 3rd 2006 Todd Beattie (32.60%) - Steph Beattie 2nd at 32.20 with amazing $2.41 ROI 2005 Wayne Catalano (36.18%) - Steph Beattie hit at 30.19 with impossible $2.98 ROI 2004 Keith Bennett (31.50%) - Tim Kreiser 2nd of $6,500 auction buy Peppi Knows fame 2nd. 2003 John Martin (30.74%) - Jeff Mullins just misses with 30.03 2002 Keith Bennett (37.57%) - Wayne Catalano checks in 2nd 2001 Cole Norman (32.62%) - Charlton Baker 2nd 2000 Charlton Baker (33.05%) - Jimmy Jerkens was 3rd that year! 1999 Keith Bennett (31.39%) - Tony Dutrow 2nd. John Shirreffs won at insane 40% that year (and on So. Cal circuit no less) .. but fell short of the required 50 minimum wins 
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10-20-2010, 07:16 PM
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How dare you
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10-20-2010, 07:39 PM
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I am merely honoring the true unsung hero's of their profession.
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10-20-2010, 07:44 PM
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Here are the three leaders this year with 1st off the claim:
* JC Guerrero (20-for-31) 65% wins $3.07 ROI * Brad Cox (21-for-49) 43% wins $3.86 ROI * Rudy Rod (8-for-20) 40% wins $3.44 ROI
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10-20-2010, 08:14 PM
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10-20-2010, 08:19 PM
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Tragically he hasn't started a horse since April 27th of this year. He was in strong contention for a 5th title this year - winning 32 of 84 races in 2010 (38% wins) and with a profitable ROI... it's too bad he decided to empty his syringes and hang it up. Bennett has had a win percentage of 25% or higher every single year for the last ten years. He's had a profitable ROI for the year in nine out of the last 14 years. Oddly, the one thing his horses were getting caught with in tests was alcohol when TuP started testing for it. From the Paulik Report... Quote:
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10-20-2010, 08:26 PM
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There is like a run in the betting on everything he sends out - especially early on - on every single horse he sends out. If they should be 6/1 on paper they're 5/2.
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10-20-2010, 08:45 PM
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10-20-2010, 08:46 PM
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10-20-2010, 09:35 PM
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 It's best race came when it finished dead last beaten 20+ lengths while racing on a live rail at PID over a synthetic surface where it's harder for horses to lose by very wide margins. Iacovacci's probably not as bad a trainer as he's cracked up to be. Don't get me wrong, he's a horrid trainer ... but most of his stock is like horses you assume he must have purchased for $300 out of a kill pen. A guy like Alejandro Reyes is 0-for-158 this year ... and he's got a horse like Prince Joshua in his barn... a horse who was Graded Stakes placed last year and ran a 102 Beyer right before he got him.
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10-20-2010, 09:46 PM
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If these guys were like brilliant horsemen who found something nagging a horse and fixed it without using alchemy to get that improvement - you'd think that people would do fine claiming off of those guys because the horse is over what was nagging them and the high percentage guys enter so aggressively that you'd be getting a big bargain if you get the right one off of them.
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10-20-2010, 09:48 PM
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He must have changed feeds or types of shoes... 
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10-20-2010, 09:55 PM
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10-20-2010, 09:55 PM
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1st off the claim: 53%, $3.63 1st after claimed from: 3%, $0.19
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10-20-2010, 09:57 PM
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Woodard has a great owner ... give one of the wizard trainers his owner and enter as aggressively as Woodard does ... and you'd have something strong.
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10-20-2010, 09:58 PM
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10-20-2010, 10:11 PM
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1st off of the claim, wins the 75K PA Bred stake by 8+ lengths at odds of 3/5 in a 9 horse field. Now that he blew the N1Y condition - I doubt that horse is worth 10K to almost any other trainer. He'll keeping hammering out mid 80 Beyers for the Impaler though.
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