Dutrow loses appeal

[freddymo]

Originally Posted by parsixfarms

The reference wasn't to them, as I don't recall them having horses with Serey and Ferriola. That said, as to this situation, I would certainly call them an enabler.

For all the negative Dutrow talk, lets be fair: His horses rarely broke down or died, they raced well or they were laid up and brought back and nobody denies he is a great horseman. Knowing were to inject and why is different then just hooping up a horse on a drug that is not traceable etc. Much of Dutrow's success was a product of him knowing what others did not or missed. NOT just chemicals.

[parsixfarms]

Originally Posted by freddymo

For all the negative Dutrow talk, lets be fair: His horses rarely broke down or died, they raced well or they were laid up and brought back and nobody denies he is a great horseman. Knowing were to inject and why is different then just hooping up a horse on a drug that is not traceable etc. Much of Dutrow's success was a product of him knowing what others did not or missed. NOT just chemicals.

If Dutrow was the savant that his defenders would have you believe, then you would have to think that the barn, without his special skills around, would see the win percentage drop off precipitously. That assistants like Juan Rodriguez, Cleveland Johnson (discussed elsewhere in this thread) and Michelle Nevin, in his supposed absence, have win percentages even more gaudy than Dutrow seems to cast doubt on those claims.