Ask The Experts

Any chance we get the Monmouth S.?

You didn\'t watch the head on replay close enough in the Monastic Springs race.  The horse in front of Edgar bore out so he tried going inside him.  When the horse bore in Edgar switched went for the hole outside of him.  When he did, the other horse bore out again.  The other horse was the one all over the place causing havoc. MS would have won easily if it wasn\'t for that other horse being all over the place.

For those that argue good training and vetting accounts for many of these move-ups mentioned and that we can\'t assume illegal drugs are prevalent in horse racing--I don\'t agree.  Big picture, we now KNOW other \"sports\" are riddled with drug/enhancing agent issues.  This \"sport\" involves horses who can\'t talk and whose underpinnings revolve around gambling, large purses, breeding fees, etc.  Suspicion and testing should be double or triple what it is compared to other \"sports\", thats just common sense. If thier issues are bad, I suspect racings are much worse.  What is more troublesome is pinning down specific names.  But it seems trainer patterns may help indicate suspicious trends, and as JB has called for, Vet disclosures would help even more.  When the trainer and vet patterns overlay each other, you probably have something (other than $$ for sore hoofs).

Boy, that was interesting hearing Allday go after Dicky though.  That is some bad blood.  Where is that one big whistle-blower that brings down some really big names with more than just venom?

Did anyone see Fragoso\'s ride on Meribel at Philly Park?  He misjudged the wire so badly, we stopped riding her and then pulled her up hard--all before the wire to cost her the race and those of us that bet her.  I know its happened before, but boy it hurts when it actually costs you money.  Don\'t think Clement will put him back up on her anytime soon.

Nice job by the posters on Any Given Saturday!!!

From the connections of Thor\'s Echo......


\"At first we were really down about drawing the rail, but after watching the earlier races we could tell there was a bias towards the inside and we really started to get excited because it was obvious the rail was the place to be,\" said O\'Neill, who won the 2005 Juvenile with Stevie Wonderboy. \"We even started joking before the race about how we could probably sell our post for good money. And even though the post helped, Corey did a fantastic job maneuvering him out like he did.\"

Nakatani said he wanted to stay on the rail as long as he could, but once leaving the backstretch had no choice but to angle out and go after the leaders.



Its hard for me to comprehend how anyone watching all of races sober doesn\'t feel there was a stong rail bias.  Bias doesn\'t mean 100% you can\'t leave the rail, just easier running there than on the outside.  Round Pond and Street Sense are just that much better?  Thor\'s Echo really turned the tables on Bordonaro too!  Watch these rail enhanced horses going forward, I\'ll try to point them out ahead of time so everyone can play along...

I agree, if they ran it on turf the result may have been the same for the top 3.  I love Meribel, always been a sucker for grass horses that drop back and make a big run, thus my user name.  I guess this poly at Kee does prove to be like turf to the horses.  Nice to see no scratches in a turf stake taken off the weeds.

Beyer\'s got the race at 117, so he definitely had it fast.