Hey Vic Stauffer..........

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Originally Posted by Honu

LOL well crap I didnt mean to ruin your hearty discussion.....

Would you say the substantial increase in speed figure(compared to the effort he got the day he was claimed) is due to the change to dirt? He switched from dirt to Synthetic before, and didn't get the huge drop in performance these people's line of reasoning would suggest. It's not like he ran poorly when he switched from dirt to the synthetic in May of 07. That's not the poor performance (going to synthetic from dirt) that they keep suggesting he has. That figure is about the same as the previous race on dirt. Then, he was off a year, and never showed the same level of ability he had shown. If he had run poorly in that 1st race on synthetic, then I would understand that line of reasoning. To me, it's a mask for their cheating(since the new trainer has been caught atleast twice, and Mandella was caught when?... exactly ??) Mandella gets nice horses, and trains them in a conservative/traditional manor. When they aren't as good as they were(or the owner wants out,) then they get claimed, or bought, by a cheater, and get moved up to stakes wins. One cheats n' the other doesn't. You've seen this happen twice in the last 5 or 6 weeks. If Mandella isn't milkshaking at all, and these other guys are running 35-36 CO2, then they are probably gunna move up. I don't know if Turf Paradise is even testing CO2. If they don't, then who knows how high they run them.