Will this be the biggest trainer move down in history?

[TheSpyder]

I think there's one angle that is being missed or dismissed here. And that is some trainers do better with some horses.

You see it all the time in professional sports, tennis & golf especially. All of a sudden a average player shows great improvement when they change their coach. Sometimes it's a better match, some times the coach see things or stresses things the last coach didn't. Some times the player is just happier. Can horses be happier? Why not.

I'm not a horse man, but I would think if you listed all the things trainers do or can do, it would be a mighty long list, legal things that is.

My guess is horses that move forward, for the majority, are simply just that.

[Danzig]

Originally Posted by TheSpyder

I think there's one angle that is being missed or dismissed here. And that is some trainers do better with some horses.

You see it all the time in professional sports, tennis & golf especially. All of a sudden a average player shows great improvement when they change their coach. Sometimes it's a better match, some times the coach see things or stresses things the last coach didn't. Some times the player is just happier. Can horses be happier? Why not.

I'm not a horse man, but I would think if you listed all the things trainers do or can do, it would be a mighty long list, legal things that is.

My guess is horses that move forward, for the majority, are simply just that.

chad pennington leaps to mind.

[ateamstupid]

Originally Posted by Danzig

chad pennington leaps to mind.

LOL, really? Because he looked pretty much like the same Chad I watched for six years. Dinked and dunked his way to 10-11 wins, then crapped the bed when he faced a good defense in the playoffs. When he stops being a dicktease and flaming out in January, then I'll agree that he "greatly improved."

[Indian Charlie]

Hmmmm.

Nice run there by Frolic's Dream.

[Danzig]

Originally Posted by ateamstupid

LOL, really? Because he looked pretty much like the same Chad I watched for six years. Dinked and dunked his way to 10-11 wins, then crapped the bed when he faced a good defense in the playoffs. When he stops being a dicktease and flaming out in January, then I'll agree that he "greatly improved."

wasn't it the consensus that he had a better year last year than he did in his years in new york? if not, my mistake.

[Indian Charlie]

Hey, I just remembered that this filly, Frolic's Dream, was entered to run on Derby day at Belmont in a five filly field.

How'd she do?

[NTamm1215]

Originally Posted by Indian Charlie

Hey, I just remembered that this filly, Frolic's Dream, was entered to run on Derby day at Belmont in a five filly field.

How'd she do?

She finished last in a crawl fest. It was ugly and it has been a big trainer move down, you were right.

NT

[The Indomitable DrugS]

Barclay Tagg has done an amazing job with this filly!

Since leaving Wolfson .. he's managed to get her to run Beyers as high as 76 in his first start ... and a whopping 55 last time out after she had been out of Wolfson's barn for almost 3 full months! And a pair of double digit length defeats at 9/5 and 5/2. A great training achievment.


She only managed figs of 85-105-86-92-90 in her five career Marty Wolfson races ... winning 4 of them .. including 3 stakes wins.