Another Take on the Derby (long)

[Stall Mucker]

Originally Posted by Cannon Shell

I'm sure that Dick Mitchell has spent plenty of time working on the track maintenance crew at various tracks and knows exactly what to do. Maybe he can cohost a dvd with Jerry Bailey and market it to all the track supers or better yet the track executives who insist on trying to make the track fast because studies show people bet more on fast surfaces. I was wondering that if the track "carried" Recapturtheglory to 5th place, why didn't it carry the 15 behind him? And his "projection" of BB breaking 2:00 under better circumstances fails to recognize that the wind that he ran against in the stretch was the same wind that pushed him down the backside. I also want to inform him that the steak he ate the night at dinner where he got the breakdown information from the jockey agent was probably not there by his own choice either.

I beleive the persons name is Dick Powell. He writes for BrisNet.

[geeker2]

Originally Posted by Stall Mucker

I beleive the persons name is Dick Powell. He writes for BrisNet.

Dick Mitchell was a professor, author and a professional handicapper - he died a few years ago.

[Pedigree Ann]

Mr. Powell isn't the only one with this opinion:

Curl [a farrier who looked after Big Brown's quarter cracks] is based in Florida and McKinlay [another farrier involved in same] is based in New York, where
he has seen an increase in quarter cracks in Thoroughbreds during
the last seven years.
“I don’t think it has anything to do with the breeding. I think it’s because
the tracks are getting harder,” McKinlay said.