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03-31-2008, 12:07 AM
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Is this a normal thing?
I noticed when looking up Blackberry Road that he worked today. It also said that David Carrol was aboard, is it a normal thing for the trainer to breeze his horses?
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03-31-2008, 12:08 AM
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03-31-2008, 12:09 AM
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Is it bad to have a trainer who is about 150-180 up on the horse?
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03-31-2008, 12:34 AM
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otherwise it's like you carrying a 15 lb backpack instead of 10 lbs. go to a ranch and check out the fat chicks that love horses. i've seen what i think was close to 3 bills slopping around on the back of some poor nag.
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03-31-2008, 01:15 AM
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03-31-2008, 05:21 AM
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Irish,
There is a five page thread about Denis of Cork. Take the time to read it and you'll know why David Carroll breezed the horse. Quote:
Last edited by Bigsmc : 03-31-2008 at 12:38 PM.
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03-31-2008, 06:29 AM
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I'm doing this from memory, so if I get the details wrong, kindly forgive me.
Del Carroll, who must have been David's father or grandfather, had taken out a particular handful of a horse named Sportin' Life for exercise at Keeneland. Some time later, horse was found running loose and Carroll found fatally injured on the track. Details never discovered, no witnesses. [Oddly enough, no conspiracy theories floated about. It was a simpler time.] So it is something of a Carroll tradition to ride the horses they train. Sportin' Life went on to sire Bet Twice, who tried to trip up Alysheba in the Derby stretch, then went on to win the Belmont.
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03-31-2008, 02:26 PM
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03-31-2008, 03:54 PM
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Blackberry Road reminds me of Dollar Bill
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03-31-2008, 03:56 PM
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Delmer 'Red' Carroll was a legendary Maryland horsemen and one of America's greatest polo players ever. His son is Del Carroll II of NY training reknown. Red Carroll was famous for working with rogue horses and Sportin Life was as evil and dangerous a horse as has ever been on a racetrack.
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03-31-2008, 03:56 PM
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Who are you to question David Carroll?!?! He galloped Easy Goer fer christsakes!!
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03-31-2008, 04:31 PM
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03-31-2008, 07:10 PM
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