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Originally Posted by sdjcom
Hello Handicappers,
Well iv'e sat back a couple of days listening to the young pimple-faced fans who have watch horse-racing for a year and are now experts. you
guys and gals, trashed a rider who has won over 200 million in purse money and is in hall of fame. let's not be naive here, ieah has 50 MILLION!!!!! ON THE LINE with BB. Let me repeat, 50 MILLION !!! on the line with BB. They told Kent not to get this horse hurt if he had any doubt about his run, and
Dutrow has had no say if BB ran in Belmont or not!!! ieah had UPS corporate
people in big tent party and you know how that goes. they told Dutrow to
have BB in this race no matter what. When they talk to Dutrow Saturday you could see in his face tone of voice and body language he knew BB was not right. Kent in his pre-race interview on ABC did not have that bubbly high
pitch voice of excitment, he was reserved and you knew he knew BB wasn't
right. Hell the work-out rider knew this.
Now all the experts on ATR including Steve Byk who i admired
and respect have flip-flopped on this issue. i held on the phone with KC
yesterday put could not get thru to Steve. Steve nor steve Haskin, or John
perrotta said anything about BB might need to be scratch 14 days before race.
Now john said BB was taken out of his work-out routine. Steve
and others on Atr for 2 weeks said everything is a go for BB. now after BB
ran terrible due to no fault of his own, and has a DNF on his record, All these experts are saying BB didn't get his long gallops in and had only 1 meaniful work-out at 5 furlongs. Well hell if you knew this days before race none of them said a damm thing after, 5 million dollars was bet on BB?
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It's funny that everybody is still giving you a hard time even though you were the only one on this board that called it right. You were the only one on here that said that they should scratch the horse. I think you were obviously right.
What was funny was that everybody was acting like what you were saying was completely outrageous when you suggested that they should scratch the horse. In reality, that opinion was not a controversial opinion at all. Most trainers that I talked to who saw the picture of the quarter crack said the exact same thing as you. I'm not saying that every trainer thought that they should scratch the horse but there were certainly plenty of trainers that would not have run that horse. I'm not going to criticize the conections for running. They made a judgement call. Hindsight is 20/20. Nobody could guarantee that the horse wouldn't win.
But the point is that your opinion was not crazy and there were plenty of trainers that had the same opinion as you.