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I believe Allday\'s assistant is a guy named Gerrity (sp?).  I usually see him in Allday\'s company though that doesn\'t mean he doesn\'t treat horses while Allday\'s away.  I do know for a fact that Allday has flown out to California on a couple of occasions this winter to treat Frankel (Lundy\'s Liability), Pletcher (name escapes me) and Dutrow (Love Of Money) horses.

Catalin

White Mercedes is vet extraordinaire Steve Allday, or the \"Magic Man\" as he is referred to in some circles.  He is the vet for a lot of high profile outfits whose stock share a few telling characteristics including big jump-ups, less volatile form cycles (i.e. horses that don\'t bounce) the ability to \"re-break\" when asked in the last 1/8 mile, etc.  

Current clients include Pletcher, Frankel, Dutrow, Romans, Margolis. Past clients included Pat (I took pieces of crap like Favorite Trick and Countess Diana and turned them into multiple GRI stakes winners) Byrne.


Catalin

I saw Offlee Wild last month at Palm Meadows and was told \"he\'s so good right now its scary.\"  

Bet against at your own risk...

I\'ve been a regular NYRA player for 30 years now, and bet I follow the drug trainers more closely than almost anyone.  My perception is that over the past 6 months or so, the number of drug trainers have stayed the same but the length of their \"ON\" cycles has decreased.  Schettino won at a ridiculous rate at SAR and now can\'t sniff the winner\'s circle.  Everything Levine ran at the end of the AQU meet jumped before he cooled off heading into the INN (he\'s getting hot again).  Martin (before he got busted) was winning off the claim like he did last year at this time but only for IEAH.  Even Labo had a streak last year where he lost with 7 or 8 straight claims.  What makes this such a bitch is thats there\'s no way to tell from the PP\'s who is on and who isn\'t.  I think there\'s a general perception that if you \"use\" only sporadically they\'ll leave you alone.  Or at least that\'s the way was before the feds got involved.

I miss the black and pink of OSB.  No guessing at trainer intent there...

The other Host is a Chilean bred in the barn of Pletcher.  They\'re both turf stakes horses stabled at Palm Meadows.  I can\'t wait until they end up in the same race.  Very likely to happen within the next few weeks at GP.

I understand from an unimpeachable source that the FEDS have an undercover agent on the NYRA backstretch for the past 9 months.  Further this source tells me that there will be more arrests next week.  Household names...

The fact that Youbet doesn\'t support ANY browsers other than Internet Explorer is a major pain in the a**.  I\'ve encountered so many problems with IE (security, stability (a BIG issue when using Youbet),speed,etc.) that I\'m considering dropping Youbet because it doesn\'t support alternative browsers.

Happy Holidays All,
Catalin