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Originally Posted by Cardus

Could you imagine Lou Holtz as a trainer? How would his poormouthing of his own horses sound?

He'd train a Grade 1 level horse, let's say Bernardini because he is on everyone's minds these days, and say before the Breeders' Cup Classic, "I'm scared to death of Ball Four."

You missed the obvious pep talk he would give them!! Remember back in 1990 when the Irish were going to play the undefeated number one team in a bowl and the cameras caught him in a private meeting with the team saying " I promise you!!! They will quit!!!!" They did indeed quit.
Can't you just see him before the race? " I promise you!!!!! When they hit the eigth pole, he will quit!!!!"

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Originally Posted by oracle80

Hes nowhere near as bad as the smarmy "ex trainers who wanna wear polyester jackets and take orders from 20 something year old kids experts" who sit on TVG and explain everything and point out what all the trainers WHO COULD HACK IT AND STILL ARE TRAINING FOR A LIVING WITH CLIENTS WHO SEND THEM HORSES are doing wrong.
The most nauseating of these events being when AA's trainer announced he stopped at Oaklawn because he had a lung infection and they laughed and called it an excuse. Yeah, those guys in the blazers are the goods.
You wanna get on someone, get on those guys. At least Hank doesn't claim he could do a better job at training them and annouce where they have erred.

I agree 100%. What's hilarious is one of those "analysts" had incredible stock as a trainer and couldn't hack it. Why he was hired is beyond me. One of his excuses for quitting is he didn't like getting up in the morning. WTF? Did he not know that was a requirement before he started?

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Originally Posted by Cardus

Wasn't that against Colorado, when he also said that it was used to scoring a lot of points, and if the Buffs didn't, they'd quit? Didn't Colorado win that game, though?

I loved the 1/8th pole comment, too!

Or what about this pep talk? "I promise you, as soon as he sets foot on the polytrack, it's over!!! He won't run a lick against you!!"

That was it, they killed them.

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Originally Posted by oracle80

Lets remember a little further back when Holtz coached the New York Football Jets. He tried to give them a pep talk and they laughed him out of the locker room. Holtz had a great stint in the pro's. 3-10. He beat the Buffalo Bills twice (2-12) and the Tampa Bay Bucanneers (0-14). Crazy Lou then found out college was his gig.

So as a trainer, I would not trust him in any Graded Stakes.

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Originally Posted by Seattleallstar

hes useless

On the contrary....he make us all look a little better when we look in the mirror.
Not to mention I love to laugh at him.

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Originally Posted by 31lengths

On the contrary....he make us all look a little better when we look in the mirror.
Not to mention I love to laugh at him.

I have not much bad to say about Hank. Though he knows losers.
Mutton Chops is the one that makes me vomit.
Anyway, I'm hoping to see both of them go toe to toe in a "barb wire" match sometime very soon. I'd pay if it was on pay for view.
Heck, I'd like to see them go against each other in a 100 yd dash. I'd bet on which one had cardiac difficulties first.

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Originally Posted by Downthestretch55

Can guys like that actually dash? or dart for that matter...

100 yard roll or waddle or do they just courageously wade thru their own gravity? Im sorry. Should not be assaulting what could be considered dwarf planets.