First of all, Asmussen uses Ragozin except for Parra\'s horses, where I advise using ours-- I was unwilling to match the ridiculously low (and I\'m not kidding) prices that Friedman charges \"clients\", which is essentially to charge them the same thing they charge bettors for sheets, plus throwing in any data they need for their horses, stake noms, or horses they are considering buying, for free. The obvious intent is to be able to say they have big name horseman clients in order to get some credibility, since they have no history of succesfully recommending purchases, let alone one that compares to ours.
But you\'re right more than you know about Steve, and lots of other trainers. He would say \"I want to run him against weaker to get his confidence up\", and I would say \"You mean you want to get YOUR confidence up\".
