BBC: Study favors Racehorse Nurture over Nature

[NoChanceToDance]

So they're saying better trainers get more winners......... wow

Do you think they have realised man has landed on the moon yet?

[Riot]

Originally Posted by NoChanceToDance

So they're saying better trainers get more winners......... wow

Do you think they have realised man has landed on the moon yet?

Very interesting. All you've got to work with is genetics, training, conditioning, and nutrition/health. The huge differences the skill of different trainers can make in a horse through the last three are readily apparent when you look at horses like SWLY and KNS. I think it's a matter of the skill of the trainer being able to optimize the genetic potential that's there.

And explains more "25 point moveups" than drugs in racing do.

[sumitas]

An eternal ponderance in horse racing. How good is this young horse ? Personally, I recall a profound post by Round Pond, I believe. He's from Florida and he firmly believes turning a horse out as a weanling is decidedley in the best interest of the horse and his potential as a racer. I personally subscribe to that. My weanling is stabled and pastured to develop as a young horse should until he is a yearling. I am proud to afford him the opportunity to develop stress free in the rolling hills and expansive pastures of upstate NY.

[miraja2]

Originally Posted by sumitas

An eternal ponderance in horse racing. How good is this young horse ? Personally, I recall a profound post by Round Pond, I believe. He's from Florida and he firmly believes turning a horse out as a weanling is decidedley in the best interest of the horse and his potential as a racer. I personally subscribe to that. My weanling is stabled and pastured to develop as a young horse should until he is a yearling. I am proud to afford him the opportunity to develop stress free in the rolling hills and expansive pastures of upstate NY.

Pastures of polytrack I presume?

[Cannon Shell]

This study is a joke. To think that someone actually wasted money on this rubbish is scary. So if Pletcher took his horses and changed stables with a guy at River Downs he would be 90% as sucessful because of the care given and his jockeys.

[Riot]

I read what the study said a little differently - simply that there is no direct correlation between cost of horse and performance. Which isn't earth-shattering news I agree with the "waste of money" part.

[Cannon Shell]

Originally Posted by Riot

I read what the study said a little differently - simply that there is no direct correlation between cost of horse and performance. Which isn't earth-shattering news I agree with the "waste of money" part.

There most certainly is