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Originally Posted by The Indomitable DrugS
He typically doesn't scratch because of weight---he'll just skip a handicap race and not enter if he feels he was given an unfair weight assignment.
Or, in some cases (Wild Spirit) he will run, and get beat a nose, and whine about it....though I believe that was more Jerry Bailey than Frankel....who, in one of his all-time greatest moments....personally blamed the racing sec. for him losing the race in a televised interview as well.
After that classic "I was on the best horse...but racing secretary Mike Lakow just got us beat today" quote -- as perhaps fallout...Jerry Bailey was fined a few days later for whipping one of his mounts about ten yards after the wire.
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I remember that race and comment well, and perhaps King Jerry needed to look in the mirror for that loss. He was so overconfident on Wild Spirit, he decided to track 3-4 lengths behind an absolutely glacial pace (literally 20 lengths slow of par) and when he finally decided to move Santos' bomb (Jerkens trainee I think?) had enough left to hold her off. The resulting pick 3 payoffs were ridiculous, with a 3/5 Bailey and a 17/1 Velazquez bomb in the finale it paid something like $3-4k.