Grade 1, $750,000 Whitney Handicap 8-5-6

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Originally Posted by Bold Brooklynite

All true ...

... but how many times have we seen horses come into a race off four straight bullet works ... then do absolutely nothing.

And what about trainers like McGaughey and Zito ... who always give their horses slow works? They usually win a few races off those works.

My point is not to get too excited by workouts ... sometimes they mean something ... and sometimes they don't. Someone like Oracle ... who's wired straight in ... can get much better info than the rest of us ... who only see numbers on a page.

I do not disagree with any of that...

I am not really concerned about the time of a workout, I mostly look at how it compares to others at the distance that morning. Also, you have to take into account the trainer and their style...I think you could put Pletcher and Dutrow in that group, maybe not as slow, but you do not see bullet after bullet in the work patterns and they seem to win a few races...

It would be nice to be wired in about how the actual work was executed, but that's what is great about the weeks leading up to the KY Derby, the average person will never have that much information about the condition of a horse...