Scott Lake

Originally Posted by Thoroughbred Fan

First of all, raise your hand if you know Lake is a cheater. Oracle defends Dutrow to the end of the universe and back. Well here is someone saying maybe Lake is doing roughly the same amount of suspect things.

Secondly, horses who get claimed don't always finish first or second. However, when they do it is normally because good horsemen have looked at the sheets and determined the horse is worth taking at today's level.

I wish there were more trainers like Lake and Dutrow. Horsemen/women who can spot a mismanaged/poorly trained horse they can improve. Then, they go and do it. Give the claiming owners hope. The rich folks will always breed great horses and have no reason to stop. But the small guy lives and dies with the trainers who are always under suspicion.

I can see we have a person posting here who thinks he knows a lot about the sport who in fact doesn't. You need scholing.
Lemme ask you a question Hoisttheflag, ok? A simple review of Dutrows winning percentage at all tracks he reaces at during a year will find y9ou roughly the same winning % at all tracks, give or take a few points.
This shows(to me) that the performance of his horses does not vary despite whatever different testing procedures or LACK of testing that any state has.

Now lets ask you this, why would a guy be embarassingly low % in a stae like Ny that has a detention barn, and super white hot at places like Philly and Delaware? Places that trainers have long suspected dont even test the urine that they they take? Places that dont have much of a budget to spend on testing?
YOu wnna bash Dutrow, go ahead. Last time I checked chump he had won the BCC, BC Sprint, Met Mile, Ashland, Suburban, Donn, all within the last year. Those are all grade ones.
Just answer my question if you can, how does a guy perform at less than a 10% efficiency rate at one place(and dont try the class level stuff, the same horses ship to Ny and run on the drop down or at the same level and cant get a sniff) and take a short drive down the road and win everything in site?
Good luck.