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Originally Posted by moodwalker
So you think that 11 starts in one year is too much? How did Biancone run her into the ground? I felt that she just cycled in and out of form last year and picked up some nice paychecks when they counted.
She made a lot of money last year, where do you fault Biancone for his management of her?
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To be even more specific about Biancone's handling of her last year, after she won an allowance race really impressively at Keeneland, he brought her back 11 days later in a 1 1/2 mile race. If you do something like that as a one-time deal and then give the horse a nice rest and give them plenty of time between races for the rest of the year, then you might be able to get away with it once. Instead of giving her a rest after bringing her back in 11 days, he ran her 25 days later. Apparently that still wasn't enough, he then brought her back 20 days later against the boys in the Manhattan. Then he finally gave her a little break but after his first race back he brought her back 2 weeks later. After that, he ran her against the boys again in the Man O' War. After getting beaten badly in that race, he brought her back 3 weeks later. It's not exactly a shocker that after all of that, she couldn't even come close to hitting the board in her last 3 races of the year.