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Old 12-12-2007, 05:43 PM
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Originally Posted by blackthroatedwind
It's not fun. You've got a 14% trainer who's horses seem to run, at random, Grade 1 races....before slipping off routinely into oblivion.

Mr. Contessa is so impressed with Missile Motor's 111 ( over a length faster than the number Midnight Lute earned in winning the BC Sprint ) that he is offering him tomorrow for the same $50K price he was in for before his Grade 1 effort.
There's a line in the Davidowitz book, "if Contessa tried to walk across the Hudson, I wouldn't bet against him"

I feel that way about him sometimes too. Especially when you come up with a well thought out selection at a square price that gets destroyed by his "magic".
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