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![]() Henny Hughes is a single tomorrow. I was told he wasn't by GPK and Chad/Skippy/whatever his friggin name is on here told me he is a single, and I thought the same. This horse can rate and is going to get the pocket as you harness people say, I see him dusting Silver Train. I might be way off on here but I don't care about 3 year old against older, don't care about the friggin rail...All I care about is what the PP's are telling me and what I have seen. Johnny didn't ask that much last time and this horse likes Belmont also (see 2nd race of his life and BC Juv).
Two bombs that we discussed Race 5 #5 In the Mesh (15/1 ML) Violette on fire, Luzzi jumps aboard, hidden turf work three back, last race got taken off the turf, looks to fit the trip Race 6 #3 Sweet Sympathy (12/1 ML) Fired fresh at GP and hoping for much the same here, Mott doesn't push horses, and he has known who was coming to this race the whole time. Still not sure she can beat Round Pond but this horse has the figs, and if she runs back to her GP effort first out this year, she is competitive. |
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![]() also got talked into Argentina, tossing her, how I got talked into that hanger is beyond me
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![]() Alright alright, tossing Silver Train is going to be a bad idea, if he beats me I am going to be real pissed. Tossing Hangentina is going to allow me to include Silver Train
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![]() Silver Train is going to vaporize him. The Train is sitting on his "A plus" race, and Hennny drew the worts possible post he could have drawn. These horses are too fast for a "pocket trip". Hes going to have to send early and fight off the pressure of Attila, War Front, and then Silver Train in that order.
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Train 2-1 today? Could be if they bet HH to odds on. Train my bet of the day at 3/2+. Also a cold exacta of Train/War Front. Will be rooting for Quay today, but I can't bet him on the carpet. |
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Its a joke, I wouldn't bet a nickel on that garbage, and thats exactly what it is, garbage. Geez Stud, as a business guy lemme ask you something ok? What do you think the chances are that people are getting "gifts", "no show jobs for family members", "paid vacations", " promises of future gifts or jobs", or just "flat out sums of money" for steering a contract for this garbage to one of the eurotrash conmen at 8-10 mill? Are you kidding me? Its gonna be just like local politics in a few years. You know, when they discover that the mayor or governor of the state awarded a large contract to a company and then two years after leaving office shows up on the board of directors in a no show job at 250 K a year at the company they awarded the contract to. Thats really what that filth is about. |
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I read a post on another thread about an increase in foot and hoof problems potentially attributed to the artificial track at Turfway ... infections and carpet burn-type symptoms. I also read that trainers are spraying their horses feet with cooking spray to lessen the impact. Crazy stuff and I would bet dollars to dimes the "carpet salesman" from Polytrack did not have a slide on carpet burn symptoms in his PowerPoint presentation. Hard to believe that Keeneland, which runs what, 10 weeks a year, went for this. |
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By the way, the "carpet salesmen" also assured everyone that this stuff was a one time buy, maintenance free for life, and only needed to be harrowed twice a day. Turfway has had to rework this stuff three times so far in a year and a half. Doesn't sound so maintenance free to me. |
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Go back and look at the archives of histories and stakes races and you will see that many legends won grade one races in times that would be considered glacial today. Were they slower? No, they weren't. But back then they didn't scrape tracks and pack them down. They allowed them to run a deep cushion and 4-6 inch harrowed surface. Deep safe cushions and surfaces don't take a rocket scientist to install. Basically you need some dump trucks full of soil. But "horse health" only became an issue at exactly the same time someone found a way to use that as a marketing tool to get rich. You can't charge people 8-10 million to install dirt. Why wasn't this cry for horse health so loud about 5 years ago? Know why? because noone could make money on it. You musta loved that maiden snail whose now a huge graded winner at Keeneland yesterday huh? What a screaming laughing joke. GPK and I were laughing our asses off on the phone yesterday after the 1st race. Yeah that horse who couldnt hit theboard in three slow Monmouth grass races really looked better than the 2-5 shot. But then again she may have looked better than the stakes winner. Its garbage, and the "best" horse doesn't win. The horse who detests the tires the least wins. Thats not racing, and its not what horses were born to do. And the funny thing is that it will only contribute to more unsound horses in the long run. Yeah, they won't break down as often and die on teh track. But how about tendons and suspensories? They end up retired or put down for insurance money anyway, or even worse. So now trainers can just keep drilling the **** out of them every 7 days seeing how fast they can possibly run. Thats really not gonna help things. |
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Congrats to anyone who had the winner in the Alcibides...awesome score. ![]() |
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He can't chill out. Missing a few marbles. Anger management issues. He could care less about horses and their health. He is a Dutrow guy. Their view is horses are just vehicles to make money. I guess they will have to find a new concoction for the poly. LOL. Last edited by Nostradamus : 10-07-2006 at 09:02 AM. |
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rather than these tracks trying to find some way to run in poor weather, they should just not run in that time of year! that's one of the problems in todays sports, no down time for the horses. run run run all year long. also, i agree about a well maintained track being the key. oaklawn is a dirt track, and every year everyone seems happy as hell with it.
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Although, there were some who couldn't stand how slow Oaklawn was playing this past year. Speed, Speed, Speed! |
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![]() the ones who refused to understand, or try to, were crying about the times. everyone who paid attention benefitted!!!
i don't know how many times it was put up that times were slow due to surface, and yet the same few flung it right back out there anytime they wanted to criticize a horse who ran and won up there! like talking to a brick wall sometimes.
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![]() If you toss Argentina you have no chance of hitting the pick 6, or any other multi race exotic running through her particular race.
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![]() Silver train is a great horse but henny is better. If henny fires, they are running for second. But that is why they run the race, everyone could collapse and the 3 horse could win
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