Dutrow loses appeal

[blackthroatedwind]

Originally Posted by Kasept

Yeah.. There's no way a horse could possibly go :25.3, :52.0, 1:16.3 & 1:40.4 on the front end and win in 1:52.4 in restricted company. Setting an outrageous pace like that, how could the whole field not blow past him? Of course off that 10th place finish v. open company -- which came as a prep for the Sun Mill after being away 11 months -- I suppose he might have been 80-1 had he not been an obvious play on the sheets and listed as a Best Bet for Thoro-Graph users.

I know a couple of smart handicappers, not Thorograph or Sheets users, who liked him as well. Clearly there were ample reasons to like him ( and, as you said, the absurd pace didn't hurt ).

I was surprised Javier dropped the favorite completely out of it. It was clearly a paceless race, he has shown some speed in the past, an Javier is one of the few who takes advantage of the frequent grabfests.

[Calzone Lord]

The filly and mare race went a half second faster -- but it's hard to put too much stock in time on a turf course that's so yielding.

If they put me down as the program trainer for Dutrow Jr. -- the show would go on.

Obviously Dutrow Jr. isn't quite the magician he once was and he has toned down his genius a lot ... but another name showing up as the trainer in the form isn't going to change anything or cause form declines.

[Calzone Lord]

By the way, reading comprehension can be extremely difficult sometimes, even for smart people.

My Lance Armstrong is a scumbag take was a 100% independent thought and had nothing at all to do with Teaks North or the poster above me.

It went to the topic at hand and not to the post above me -- which is why nothing was quoted.

Sorry I have to explain it like this.