Awful: 'Mattress Mack' fires Borell day after fairytale BC Sprint win

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Originally Posted by Arletta

A comment on the PR from a guy named Wane Stacy says it best:

"Lets make no mistake about the purpose and tone of my post; or my experience in the industry....I have none. I am a photographer. I see emotion and read people through a lens. I have been an acquaintance of Marie for a little over a year. But I am not a "dear friend". I have seen how she has treated and cared for this horse, and it is beyond anything I have seen before when it comes to turning around a "failing" in any business.

To remove Maria as trainer of this horse is going to be devastating for this animal. Does anyone actually believe that RH is going to receive the same attention from Wohlers? is she going to take naps in the stall with this horse? spend nights in the barn with this horse? Not a chance, outside of workout day, and race day she will never be near this animal, and on those days, she won't get any closer than the grandstand, or the rail, until it is time for a photo op.

People have continually tried to throw Wohlers "training" experience up as though she has some wonderful resume.....when the obverse is actually true.

Since the year 2000 she has had 11 stakes races, and her best finish was 2nd with Objective, in 2006. She has only finished in the money that one time. throwing out the 2nd place finish, she has an average finish of 6th place over 10 races in 15 years.....is that who you want training your horse, if you are in fact someone who wants your racehorses to win money?

While on the obverse...Maria has had 6 stakes races, and finished 1st in all but one, a 12th place finish by Sgt. Sandals in 2014...

Young, new, old, hot, ugly.......if you are a horseman/woman, this is who you want training your horses.

Unless,....

What I do know is business, and business is no different from one type to the next. You have businesses that are geared to profit, and those geared to failure. some do it by design, others do it out of ignorance, some do it out of love.

People open restaurants because they love food, and they want you to love their food. Most close within 5 years; many within 24 months....it wasn't about money. It was about love.

Many big businesses want profits from the creation of a service, or device, to dominate, Apple, Microsoft, etc, etc......if a service or product fails, it kills it because its all about the profits.

there are two kinds of of racehorse owners...

Those who out of love and ignorance will invest time, energy, and countless dollars into an animal and a team because they have love for an animal and they believe in it......the money is no consideration.

Those who look at a racehorse as a way to write off debt as a capital gains loss, and tax deduction.

Jim McIngvale is the later in my opinion. Every single time he has a trainer, rider, horse that is ready to take the world by storm, create a great buzz, put the stakes earnings on track to profit......he destroys it. Because if the horse is a winner, then he pays taxes...he is no longer creating deductions on loses.

This man keeps throwing horses at his inept sister in law because he knows she couldn't train a barrel to hold trash.

Maria was fired because she and RH made money......

You want proof?

First off, you don't fire 35 (now 36) of the best trainers in the business over the course of 18 years without being a little bit touched in the head...

Since 1997 McIngvales has posted 31 stakes horses. subtract RH from the lot and you are left with 27 races. in 18 years his horses have had three 1st place finishers, two 2nd place finishers, and two 3rd place finishers.....in 18 years. his average finish for a horse is 5.4 always outside the money.

It doesn't take a rocket scientist to see that he uses horse racing to offset the profits obtained as the "mattress king"...

Wohlers is a middle management yes man(woman), who went crying to the brass when she didn't get her way in front of the "help". McIngvales is a narcissist who believes anyone else's face on the screen or in print other than his own...does him an injustice.

If RH goes off to California and finishes a race higher than 5th place.......I will be beyond astounded.

They can try to spin their PR all they like, but they can't spin math and statistics."

Mattress King is a class 1 doucgebag but what I highlighted above is preposterous that is in it to lose.... If that was the case then why run a horse that is favored in a race with a 1.5 million dollar purse ?