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Old 07-23-2009, 07:38 AM
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Originally Posted by The Indomitable DrugS
Maker shows a 28% profit on the betting dollar in all turf route races this decade.

From 885 starters in route races this decade - he shows a 21.2% profit on the betting dollar.

From almost 1,100 career starts in turf routes .. McLaughlin shows a 14.5% profit on the betting dollar.


McLaughlin has real magic to him ... he almost won the Kentucky Derby with Closing Argument .. a horse who was the 20th choice in the betting .. even a bigger price than a sprinting rabbit only entered to ruin Bellamy Road.. and CA ran spectacularly well considering the pace of the race. He was just 2 lengths off of that 22.28 first quarter mile .. and the 1st, 3rd, and 4th place horses all rallied.

He managed to win a horse of the year with Invasor ... a horse from Uruguay who got utterly pummled by Discreet Cat in the UAE Derby.

He won a Breeders Cup F and M Turf with Lahudood .. a filly who went 1-for-7 in Europe and was beaten by Wingspan in an N1X alw on the grass at 10fs - four months later she won the Breeders Cup.

Intidab was beaten 11 consecutive times in Dubai when McLaughlin got him .. was beaten a pole in his first American start at huge odds. 3 months later he beats Artax in a Graded Stake at Saratoga with a 120 Beyer figure.

Just because the guy isn't getting claiming horses doesn't mean he's supposed to have magic numbers and get wild form reversals.

Drugs are we to assume that any trainer on any circuit who is able to get wild form reversals is a cheater , is that a fair statement

Are all trainers equal in ability? ... if 1 guy can't get a horse to run , but someone else can improve him a lot does that automaticlly mean he is juicing?
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