Trainer Quotes from Monday's action

Originally Posted by pgardn

He had the outside post. Should he have scratched? I watched that race a few times, I would like to know how Hard Spun was supposed to get to the rail before the stretch run in which he was very tired. From my view it would have been very difficult.

But I understand what you are saying about the trainers comments. Just dont think they really had a chance to get him to the rail without going thru horses, especially with the poor start. The winner ran well but you are not going to find a much better trip, cant take that away from him but not sold on exactly how good he his. Officer Rocket looks like he could like the mile and a quarter.

What I don't get is the horse breaks 2nd last and then proceeds to take a bad step. When they settle (5-10 strides out of the gate), he's 2nd last, outrun about 3 lengths, and widest of all.

Now, HTF is he supposed to take advantage of the bias from there? Assuming that the trainer and jock were aware of the bias. He has ZERO chance of getting the lead and ZERO chance of getting inside.

Now, what exactly was the criticism against the trainer?