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Originally Posted by Holland Hacker
I was at Aqueduct today but it could have been happened anywhere. There was a first time starter listed at something like 8-1 in the ML and went off at close to 2-1. As my friend was walking away from the windows he over heard some one saying that the trainer had put $$$ down on the horse. He also said that the he heard someone say that the morning clocker was given the wrong name for the horse when this horse worked out in the morning. There was no way this horse would have been bet down with the published works 1:03 +/- for the last two work.
I guess I wouldn't have cared or bothered to post this if the horse didn't win but it actually won and and won for fun, I think the horse drew off by 8 - 10 lengths.
My questions to you guys are:
Do you think this is a common practice among certain trainers and is it unaoivdable?
Should we basically ignore the published work outs horse in the mornings?
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But did the morning clockers know what the riders instructions were? Alot of times public and private clockers watch a horse work and they think they arent much but they dont know what the exercise riders or jockeys instructions were.
I cant tell you how many times I have worked a horse with another horse and the boss has said " listen this horse is going to run in 6 days DO NOT BEAT HIM " " dont even gallop out by him". Its important , I see private clockers all the time in the grandstand at Hollywood and to tell you the truth they remind me of pigeons , just lookin for somethin they can peck on.