How a horse improves by 20+ lengths in a month...

[The Indomitable DrugS]

Originally Posted by Rudeboyelvis

A decent farrier and a positive attitude.....works magic.

When Left Bank won the Whitney in 2002 .. he ran 9fs at Saratoga in 1:47 flat and equaled the track record.

That Shifty Sheik horse ran 1:47 2/5 in the mud going 9fs at Saratoga just 5 days after missing the board in a claiming race in his first start for Oscar.

The very same year - Slew O' Gold beat Track Barron in 1:48 3/5ths in the Whitney. Obviously two different days ... but damn.

When I first started following racing - Oscar was a laughably bad trainer - I mean as bad as it gets. His son is a ham and egger at Finger Lakes and he's way better than Oscar was. I always thought my father was lying to me when he'd tell me stories about Oscar's greatness.

He once tried to convince me that a lot attendant at his car lot was the greatest Jai Alai player of the 80's .. he took me to some little musem at a fronton in Miami. The guy had the same name as the lot attendant - but obviously it wasn't the same person.