Silver Charm wrote:
> You selected Sightseek over Azeri.
>
> Are you using DRUGS?? (lol)
lol
Seriously,
Sightseek won three Grade I\'s and crushed Azeri.
Azeri won three grade I\'s with Sightseek running a good second. (They meet twice)
Sightseek also won other races. Azeri did not.
Sightseek had a much higher 2004 winning percentage.
I don\'t give Azeri any credit for getting beaten handily twice by the boys. I discount her over it. Lukas had his chance for the Eclipse. He needed to run her in the Distaff and he blew it. Though I suspect that wasn\'t his decision.
Bdh,
You really don\'t like my Birdstone \"honorable mention\"?...lol
Well, Sinister G. did run on a tractor path during that race. As bad as Bird\'s Lane\'s End and Derby were, the following two were good.
I\'m not thoroughly familiar with the responsibility chain for drug positives, but to my knowledge it would generally be a difficult stretch to link them to the owner. I\'m sure its occasionally done and may have been done in Gill\'s case but I\'m not aware of it. Shuman is certainly a suspect, but to my knowledge Gill has a few trainers.
Regarding the horses leg. The horse broke down and was put down. The vet cut its leg off, ostensibly to study. He still had the leg and turned it over to the authorities. I don\'t see the problem. When they bother burying horses they cut off the head, heart and hooves, bury those and send the body for animal food processing. (At least they did) My Golden Retriever loved Alpo \"Horsemeat\". I also think i\'ve seen the lower leg of Lexington or some other foundation sire that was cut off. I think they have Lexington\'s whole skeleton somewhere, so I must have seen some other stallions leg.
From my perspective, its hard to hold Gill accountable for cheating, but not hold trainers, like those up for the award, responsible. Those trainers may or may not have positives, but I think we know whats going on.
Heres a little more from the Thoroughbred Times on Gill. My problem is why is Gill getting all the attention when Frankel is doing the same thing? The cut off leg, is that the difference?:
\"Shuman was recently cleared of any wrongdoing in the incident, but Gill claimed that Gulfstream had laboratory results on the leg by February 21 but did not release those results until a month later after his lawyer threatened to sue. Track veterinarian Mary Scollay had requested testing for blocking agents, but synovial fluid withdrawn from Casaul Conflict’s joints tested positive for only phenylbutazone and euthanasia agents.
\"They knew the leg was clear but it took my lawyer to get them to get the information out of them,\" Gill said.\"
http://www.thoroughbredtimes.com/search/searchdetail.asp?Section=&RecordNo=31970One last story from the \"Times\" I thoroughly agree with. I feel similar about Frankel. That is he can\'t be barred from the game until they can prove it. Gill was caught on a substance violation as a trainer, years back.:
http://www.thoroughbredtimes.com/search/searchdetail.asp?Section=&RecordNo=32640CtC
Post Edited (01-07-05 08:06)
