lol

gd i just spit up the coffee..

lmfao

He is on the banned list.....

You want to get your boy fired up, have him talk about the banned list, veins pop in his neck! I have been on location when people get added to the banned list. It is great people watching.

Is Vic going to speak on this topic?

Eventually

Ya Think?

This ordeal is hilarious because it all comes down to greed for both parties.

Vic added Garcia, Rosario gets midget rage and looks for a better opportunity.

If you're going to add a second jockey why in the world would it be Martin Garcia? The guy is never going to be an elite rider. Why risk losing your true breadwinner for that slapdick?

Short-sighted buffoonery is why.

Rosario can likely pick the mount back up on Cedros now.

Wow. A friend told me the other day how much he trusted me above anyone else. While accepting the compliment I acknowledged and pointed out the slim pickings involved. Life is cruel. As another friend liked to say when things were REALLY bad, "Keep your chin up."

:rolleyes:

have a heart

Wonder if 'east coast' racing came up and who bought?

frank l 'had to piss when the bill came ..lol

Guy has a face like a tomato. BP must be over 200

Well in short hind-sight MG won a 250k race (Southwest) and the 750K Big Cap in the last 2 weeks.

I loved his ride in the Big Cap, he put that horse in the best possible spot from way out there. Softest possible trip because of the ride, I like Garcia.

Yep he is #1 in Vic's book

shouldnt Ebanks be more worried about March Madness than jockey's?

Well he's an elite rider now. Pardon moi.

Just sayin...

Yes and here's more stats..

He's 4th in money earnings.

Now..

He's winning at a horrible 13% and in the money 36%.

The big cap win was a mirage. This guy has been touted as being one of the next great ones since 2006. He's not. To risk losing Rosario for him is stupid.

My point stands.

Ya think? Well, in my opinion(after watching these midget activities for almost 30 years) this was predictable. For a lot of reasons, I think a top jock needs "his own" jock agent. I thought it was a bad move for Vic to pick the 2nd jock up. Obviously, we have opposing opinions on it. Remember when Talamo left this same Eubanks guy? I said these guys are better off with their own agents. I'm sure Joel agreed to it, but, in practice, it just doesn't work well. Dude, when your 2nd jock gets about 40k, and your top jock gets almost nothing? It was gunna test your lil experiment. Test over. All the stuff you two did together wasn't enough to counter this lil sht's anger over Marty get 40k, and him getting zip. So, people can tell me it works, but I just don't think the 2 jock thing works very well. The only thing that could of avoided this is not getting another jock to rep. What would you've done if J told you to pick 1? Again, a bad situation.

I agree with this, especially when the other agent is calling him and telling the PO'ed jockey that should have been his horse.

I couldn't agree more about him being bad. I remember arguing about him with someone else who thought he was the good.

Tyler Kaplan could ride some of these steam jobs that Baffert is putting him on. He is obviously working his ass off in the mornings for Baffert so he is getting rewarded, which is a good thing, but there is about 7 other riders I would trust over him out there.....

See attached link for Bruno DeJulio's take on the agent change.

http://www.santaanita.com/sites/defa...wsletter_0.pdf

A scent of a woman... You got your out Vic.. The girl is the fallGUY

Woman are the f'n rake man

Wayne Catalano and the Calabrese racing team has extended an hand out to Michael for the Arlington Park meet.

This is so great. At least I know I will only be haunted for the first couple weeks until he gets benched and ET Baird is called back in.

the circle of butthurt widens.

Can I get it translated?

Michael Baze is gonna win a ton of races out there.What's he up against? Tim Thorton....Razo....Wade...Riggs........Uriel Lopez ? With Catalano backing him he will crush that laughable colony.

Why do some trainers whine as much as they do about "getting spun" ?

The jockey is one of the most meaningless factors in all of racing ... is it such a great loss that a rider - or his agent - who would rather ride another horse in the race is not on your horse?

Here is the thing though, the hatred between Calabrese and Catalano is still there, he isn't going to be riding for both of them, one because they are in alot of races together and two, Calabrese won't ride someone that he is riding usually.

There is no doubt he is gonna be getting on some Cadilliac's. Hell, Catalano was getting Brandon Meier to win races for christ sake, he is usually done riding by the 1/4 pole because he hasn't eaten in three days.

There is also no doubt that this colony is less to be desired. I think Wade is hurt again by the way.

Principle.

Add to the fact an effeminate ogre is the one doing it.

threw earlie fires some huge bones at the end of his carreer as well. IMO Baze will be a middle of the road jock, by no means do i see him dominating ANY meet

-bt-

How do you watch as many races as you do and still find the NUTS to (repeatedly) post this stuff? Especially since your 'home track' is PID.

Statistics are MEANINGFUL.
Speed Figures are MEANINGFUL

A premature move is MEANINGLESS. :rolleyes:

PID is my 'home track' only in so much as it's 2 miles away and all my selections go in the newspaper.

For two straight years my top selection has yielded a flat bet profit at the end of each meet.

But hey, that's just 1,600 races... Joel Rosario, who you knock bigtime as a jockey, has yielded a flat bet profit for a riding career of over 4k races.

Don't get me wrong .. I'll downgrade the chances of a horse if I think the new rider is hopelessly incompetent... or if the rider switch is one I deem negative.

Just because I quote a lot of riders stats doesn't mean it's much of a factor in my handicapping. A lot of times - the reputation of the rider gets baked into the odds. Yeah, Dominguez is great ... but if you get him you're going to see a bit of a hit in price. Yeah, Jackie Davis stinks ... but hey, you're going to get the best of it price wise with someone like that. If the horse runs well enough .. it won't matter.

Sometimes everything unfolds right and bad riders land perfect trips. Sometimes things go wrong and good riders find bad trips.

I just think that when given half decent mounts, Baze is one of the better jocks out at SA. The guy did win a few meets out there yrs ago. Now he is goin to a colony that is very weak.

For Baze's sake hopefully Catalano chooses him...will be better off. I would guess some of the better horsemen will be off to NJ this summer making Catalano that much stronger out there. If a guy like Brandon M. can win races out there....anyone with 2 arms, 2 legs, and a head can win.

I didn't realize that Calabrese and Catalano STILL hate eachother. Figured they would have moved past it. Frank Calabrese is a strange guy. Heard some strange stories about that dude when I lived out there.

This comment is the definition of boorish.

For what it's worth, women read this board too.

Your top picks are typically CHALK, from what I've seen you write on the topic. Moreover, I just completed a year's worth of plays, close to 2,000 plays, with a POSITIVE ROI. (And my only 'tool' is that simpleton Fat Chart-- imagine if the charts were actually accurate?)
It's NOT statistics or any other of the common tools. So, let's get that out of the way and not feel the need to mention it again.:rolleyes:

I could care less what Rosario's flat bet results are. I have an idea what he can and can't do from watching him. He's NOT a top jock. If I depended on results, then I'd be keying on Jacquie Davis, who certainly has a HIGHER return over the past 200 races than Rosario. These stats are USELESS to me.