Inner Track Wrap-Up - NYRA Youtube
 

Jason and I did a short video recognizing some of the more accomplished horses on the recently concluded inner meet. Here's the link if you're interested.


http://www.youtube.com/nyravideo

This was very cool.

Thanks.

Very nice wrap up.

Hedge Fund...11 starts?? man...

And he held his form the entire winter. Amazing.

It was pretty cool that he won his final start after being in the money 9 or the previous ten without winning.

You almost sounded emotional talking about him finally getting a win..

and yes, that was cool..

of course, preceded by the Dutrow claim running 3 days back:wf

Not sure how Barrier Reef out finished Freddy the Cap but whatever?? Congrats you both survived perhaps the darkest place on earth..

Any chance they could bring you guys in to ESPN or NBC to show'em how it's done?

Nice work. :tro: I got excited for Hedge Fund myself just watching that.

Very nice wrap up . How about Mor Chances ? He had to be right up there with the son of Mizzen Mast , Barrier Reef, for horse of the meet .

Here's to a happy retirement: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KVga4bFbnbI.

Why'd they retire him?

He looked pretty darn good winning his last race by 12+ lengths for a nickle at Mountaineer.

He had a few more wins for a nickle left in him.

Your serious? :zz:

MTN is the last stop before the truck comes. Hedge Fund was racing against horses at the "end of the line". One reason Hedge Fund was in good shape is that McG trained him until he was sold...sometime around mid 2007. Hedge Fund didn't have 25 starts (in 2009) on his resume when Phipps owned him and...no drugs..no joint tapping,...no steroids...

Bravo to WinStar.

One start prior to that big win for a nickle at Mountaineer - he ran a good 3rd from an outside post for $7,500 at Presque Isle against the indomitable Cozar's Coup.

Instead of retiring - wouldn't you rather see the great Mountaineer hop artist Scooter the shooter Davis get a hold of him .. and inject some toughness and glory back in him?

When Deadly Dealer - once 3rd at 2/1 odds to Curlin in the Arkansas Derby - was badly off of form ... and had run 7th against those same "end of the line" types at Mountaineer ... they cried it was time to retire him .. but he got a shot of Scooter in him and racing fans have now been treated to the old Deadly Dealer.

The improvement from late June to early August is truly comical.

Here's Scooters stats in sprint races over the last two years:

2010: 43-for-144 (29.9% wins) $2.72 ROI
2009: 46-for-216 (21.3% wins) $2.62 ROI


They knock guys like that because they "do it at Mountaineer" ... yet almost everytime these guys get their hands on a horse who's flunked out of a respectable/overrated trainer from a bigger circuits barn ... the reversals are magic.

Scooter was the kingpin with sprinters down there about 8 years ago - the good old days when Mountaineer had huge daily handle and you got great liquidity in the betting exchanges there. He's had a lot of bad tests over the years.

Scooter the Shooter. LOL

I guess technically nobody cheats in WV, because they're all doing it!

Maybe so - but some do it much better than others.

A lot of trainers can be like 20-year-old skanks with a loser boyfriend .. 'Just wait and see how good he is when I change him'

The alchemist trainers are the ones who routinely do change them in a big way.. the trainers who are mere mortals might hit a double or home run once every blue moon .. but they also whiff a whole lot.

Here's a video of Deadly Dealer's stakes win from a few weeks ago courtesy of the DRF Stakes Results board... he ran like he was utterly possessed.

http://www1.drf.com/displayVideo.do?...=D&country=USA

Go Go Shoot turned french down the stretch.

I've been waiting for Mountaineer to host a Mid-Atlantic Chemist Festival where Scooter Davis, Scott Lake, Stephanie Beattie and friends can battle heads up with a full card of 5K claimers running 95 beyers.