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I've been to Los Alamitos more times than I can remember to attend the QH's and once did the Hollywood Park/Los Al Marathon Double.  I've also attended Harness Racing at Los Alamitos.

My understanding is that the BC is its own entity  So the track has no say who is allowed in

I might be wrong on that

I believe you're right, Raven.  Team Stronach can keep him from training there and at any of their other tracks but Breeder's Cup Ltd. has final say on who can enter and compete in their races.  Since Santa Anita is hanging on to the BC by its' cuticles, I doubt they would fight it.

Scapegoat may be the wrong term but he's certainly being made an example.  Wasn't Team Stronach leasing Bay Meadows and didn't they own GGF when Dorf was filling all the races there as he had before Stronach came along?  I've never been his biggest fan but he is what he is and Dorf has been that as long as I can remember.  This whole thing reminds me of the old parable about the Frog and the Scorpion.  Dorf is the Scorpion, it's his nature.  That's why I thought it was curious that Fox Hill took their horses away from him with such indignation over the Songbird incident.  Did they do any due diligence?  Did they not know the way Dorf does business?  It amazes me when people give horses to Dorf or Baffert or Miller or Cerin and then grouse when the horses are run into the ground or hopped up to the gills.  By the same token, I could never understand it when people gave horses to Bruce Headley or Ron Ellis and then complained when the horses run 3 times a year. 

Fighting fire with gasoline, I see. I think this has more to do with Saez and the West's public defense. Evidently, the CD stewards don't like to be questioned using the public as a jury. This is when Stronach should step up and take half of the Pegasus money and card a new Derby at either Santa Anita or Gulfstream. Perhaps if CD had to scramble to get #'s 7 or 8 on the point list to be the favorite, they would see how flawed their race has become.

Retire him?  Surely, you're not serious,right?
I think he is one of the top five of this years 3yr olds

BTW  Country House is up there too!

I was referring to Country House. They've got a classic win, why risk exposing him? Lay your hand down and take the pot. Timing is everything and he had good timing which lead him to be in the right place at the right time on Saturday.

Maximum Security is a time bomb in my opinion. Training him with those two-minute licks isn't style it's necessity. When he goes wrong hopefully it will be in the morning and it will be minor and not life threatening. If they can gather enough bubble gum and duct tape to get Maximum Security through the Haskell, Omaha Beach will need to win the BCC, most likely, to take the Eclipse.

Left hind sesamoid fracture Saturday in the Pat Day at Churchill. Prognosis good, surgery this week. May be back before the end of the year.

I thought that race was too bad to be true.

So they turned him out for several months when he was hot as a pistol and he didn't have a pimple on him, yet he'll be back before the end of the year after surgery for a cracked sesamoid and it's already mid-May?  Gotta love that consistency, maybe Larry Best should buy Greyvitos.

I read that they were waiting for the test results, before giving him antibiotics
The situation is fluid with him

I get that but, I would think he is still missing some training and I just don't see Mott tossing him into the Belmont not 100%. Personally, I'd retire him now, you only get so much luck with a horse.

I hope there is nothing serious

Looking forward to seeing him at Belmont!

If he is indeed getting sick, you'll probably see him in NY but more likely Saratoga.

 

Never again.
I knew there was a reason I quit using DRF... figured I'd give them a other chance with the price decrease, but never again.

Why, specifically?  I get a hard copy of the DRF, when I know I'm going to the track. More habit than anything else, I suppose.

Hi All,
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--Curtis Wright
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What Accelerate and Monomoy Girl did are special. What Justify did, generational. I'll take Justify.

The vets giveth as well as taketh away.  Last year on a fairly non-descript day at Emerald Downs—ironically most days there can be described as such—I bet the 4 horse in a real ham and egger type race. Just as the horses are going in the gate for the 5.5f race, the 4 rears, tosses the jock, does a 180 and sprints to the back of the chute—a furlong jaunt. So I head over to change my bet. Before I could make the change, the horses are in the gate, the bell rings and they're off. So I figured my horse is scratched and I'll just watch the race. I notice a horse got left at the gate and is well behind the field, then I notice the horse has a yellow saddle cloth—it was my 4 horse, it hadn't been scratched. It was 7-1 before it's little joyride but after the start, I see it was 13-1. Three horses are engaged in a speed duel up front and begin to shorten their stride and trip over their tongues at the 1/8th pole. A horse comes to get them all—replete with a yellow saddle cloth—it was my 4 horse!  Only at Emerald Downs.

Strange that you mention Secretariat. I watched the move two days ago and I was speechless. 31 length. I watch the ending four times already because to me that was impossible......unless of course those horse quit running but that wasn't the case. I swear Secretariat understood english and was very upset with Sham owner for his foul mouth.

I think you're referring to the trainer, Pancho Martin, who was by no means shy but it was also played up a bit for the movie. The Mouse being the Mouse, after all.

for the historians.....

http://articles.latimes.com/1991-12-28/sports/sp-880_1_allen-paulson

I remember because of that contract, the next winter at Santa Anita PVal fruitlessly chased Best Pal, time and time again on Dinard. Before the contract, Best Pal was PVal's mount. I remember back in the day, the Whiteley's had a contract with Jacinto Vasquez. I don't know if they got a cut when he pulled one here and there, though.😉 Even further back, Fred Hooper would scour Panama for jocks and bring them to the states where they rode under contract to him. A few Hall of Famers, in that group. Baeza and Pincay were a couple of them.

Yeah, you have to watch pedigreequery. If the gamers sneak in there with Ruffian's foals by Secretariat, born in 2015, you can get confuddled.   :chickendance:

So the colt I read about on there with that bloodline, isn't legit?  I bet Elvis and Tupac are going to be upset they spent all that money to buy in.

DRF gives you the sire, dam and grandsires. If you want to go further back than that you can look up each horse individually on pedigreequery.com. The latter site can be a little erratic, but the more contemporary horses, I've found, are more accurate.