Beyer in Chilie

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Originally Posted by PatCummings

I am not, nor have I ever, suggested that racing in Dubai or anywhere else was drug-free - I would suggest, however, that the height of the rubbish from American trainers about needing to "give their horses time" is a result of permissive race-day medication usage. And if it isn't, then where does that come from?

Nowhere else but in North America do trainers regularly cite those needs - and to say that horses cannot perform at top levels, within say three to seven days after a previous top effort is simply ignorant. It happens with absolute regularity most everywhere else in the world at some point in the year. The closest to that happening in the US is the Triple Crown.

Would anyone like to offer some suggestions as to what it is that makes our trainers unable to garner the same performance from their horses as trainers on four other continents?

Do you have any actual experience training racehorses?

Do you know that the trend of horses "needing more time" comes from influences outside of the backside right? That the sheets guys with an assist from Bobby Frankel's astronomical success (which the sheets guys kind of took some credit for because he campaigned horses with help of the sheets while at the same time accusing Frankel of cheating which may or may not have been true)

The truth is that the top trainers not running their horses as much filters down because people follow what successful people do or at least what they think they do. Not to mention that unlike Europe or Dubai or Hong Kong we race all year long. When there was less winter racing in this country horses raced harder during the racing season because they knew they were going to get down time in the Winter.

And the influence of owners has a lot to do with it as well. Since they all flock to the same trainers who train with the more time motto, why is it surprising that other trainers follow suit? And it should be understood that trainers often publicly lie about the condition of their horses for reasons that anyone could understand. It is a lot easier to say the horse needs more time than say he was lame yesterday.

And lets revisit the careers of some famous European horses
Dancing Brave- 10 starts
Zarkava-7 starts
Sea the Stars- 9 starts
Dalakhani-9 starts
Galileo- 8 starts
Conduit-8 starts (2 in NA)
Shirocco-13 starts over 3 seasons
High Chaparral-13 starts over 3 seasons
Kalanisi-11 starts
Daylami-19 starts over 4 seasons

Lets not act like European stakes horses are running more than American stakes horses are.