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Originally Posted by brianwspencer
Would I, though? That's what matters when you're responding to me.
Whatever they want to do with their horse is good enough "excuse" for me, which has basically been my stance the entire time.
Count me still "on the bad side." Though I'm with miraja that I wish they would've waited to see how she was coming out of it before saying that. Knowing them, it's not even official yet.
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What it really comes down to Brian out of the camouflage of the statement of “doing what is good by the horse statement” is they just don’t believe she can beat Zenyatta in the Apple Blossom in a month’s time. The problem is when you have a horse of this billing, in race publications to racing boards, to respected writers. The reasons of not running in the Apple Blossom look bad from an optics point of view, this is especially true when both connections agreed to the conditions a month ago they would meet, even having the race bumped back a week for Rachel. I don’t think anyone with a reasonable head expects Rachel to be perfect, however Jess Jackson and Steve Asmussen seem to have a problem with this thinking, they somehow feel it taints her image if she loses, and it reflects in the races they select for her to the races they ultimately avoid.