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11-11-2009, 06:05 AM
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Now Quality Road refuses to board plane
Looks like the horse is a real head case. Are there straight jackets for horses?
http://www.bloodhorse.com/horse-raci...-will-van-home
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11-11-2009, 06:31 AM
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Instead of vanning him back to NY. they should just send him right to south Fla. The starter ( Jeff Powell ) down there will get him to load correctly.
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11-11-2009, 08:00 AM
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(From the owner,) Initially, the gate crew handled things what I perceived to be very properly, patting him on the head and neck and reassuring him. He already was agitated and hesitant and they tried to do things in a calm way. Then they went right away to the harsh stuff, like the blindfold. It went from not loading to dangerous pretty quickly.
Get a grip son, I think they should of grabbed both his ear and lip to drag his a s s in and then fined your butt for sending a green race horse to the Classic. How can you blame the gate crew!
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11-11-2009, 08:13 AM
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This could very well be the owners fault. This horse had NO gate issues when running for Jimmy Jerkens.
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11-11-2009, 08:36 AM
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Folks - these are horses. I just watched a horse on TV scared to step into a small pond. They can be borderline nuts sometimes, much like a lot of people we converse with here!
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11-11-2009, 08:45 AM
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I really only watch NY racing on a day-to-day basis and all I'll say about the whole thing is that there are usually a number of different things that the NY gate crew try to get an unruly horse in (walking them around, linking arms and pushing, or simply waiting for the horse to calm down) that the gate crew at SA really didn't try.
I, of course, have never tried to put a horse in the starting gate, so my opinion is incomplete, but it did seem like there were more things that could have been tried. I also can understand that QR should have been schooled at SA but you can't simulate race conditions with a mare loading to his inside. NT
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11-11-2009, 07:37 PM
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11-11-2009, 07:38 PM
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A current DRF.com article says the Clark is also under consideration...The pace there would be much softer and I could see him CRUSHING THEM if hes right. It would be a nice step into next year.
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11-11-2009, 07:40 PM
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11-11-2009, 07:45 PM
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11-11-2009, 07:52 PM
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I hope Quality Road comes back as a 4yo. He's really starting to look like a what might have been type of horse.
He showed extreme talent in the Derby prep season - especially the Fountain of Youth - his performance in the Fountain of Youth was probably the single most impressive performance by any male horse this year...and perhaps any horse of any gender. All the foot problems - he comes back and is insanely rushed into making the Travers. He gives a very solid account of himself twice at 10fs even though I believe a one-turn mile is certainly his best race. He was so interesting in the Breeders Cup Classic because even though his running style was a terrible fit for that Pro-Ride ... his pedigree seemed great for turf/synthetic. And he's a gate scratch. Jimmy Jerkens is the closest thing to an East Coast version of John Shirreffs. Both having seemingly impeccable reputations ... and suspiciously impressive stats. Jimmy Jerkens has started 2,455 horses in his training career .. and his ROI is $2.01 ... he's run well enough for Pletcher though.
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11-11-2009, 04:48 PM
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