They should review some old DRF's on this one...

Calzone Lord · #1 12-08-2011, 11:13 PM

http://www.drf.com/news/laurel-rapid...cord-wins-year

Quote:

The 5-year-old Rapid Redux, trained by David Wells and owned by Robert Cole, will go for his 19th win of 2011 in Tuesday’s sixth race at Laurel, a starter allowance for horses who have run for a claiming price of $5,000 or less the past two seasons. The 1 1/16-mile race drew six other runners, including Zosogood, a winner of three straight races at Monmouth Park since mid-October.

As part of his Triple Crown campaign in 1948, Citation won 19 races, matching the single-season total by the Hall of Famer Roseben as a 4-year-old in 1905. Rapid Redux can tie that post 19th-century mark for a Thoroughbred based in the continental United States.

Donald Macdonald won 22 races in 1913 ... and as far as I can tell .. Palmetto, Charleston, Belmont, Pimlico, Havre De Grace, and Laurel are all tracks in the continental United Stakes.

Found this pretty interesting:

A young Warren Buffet would send away to Chicago and have stacks and stacks of old DRF's sent to him so he could handicap races from all over and test methods ... than go the next issue and see what happened in the result charts. Think of how incredibly psychotic and wasteful of time something like that is in the Pre-Internet era?

I think he became the richest man in the world for a short stint ... so if it was good enough for him in his teenage years ... the process wouldn't hurt anyone else in a time when technology has made it thousands of times easier, less psychotic, and FAR less wasteful of time.