Hooves' BEL selections {$3,951 P4 Hit!!}

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Originally Posted by blackthroatedwind

I see your point, and surely the horse did win rating for Prado, and like you said couldn't for anyone else. However, I think if you use Formulator you would find it interesting if you looked up how well some horses for this trainer have performed off the claim or trainer change.

I'm open to either scenario. Trainers obviously move horses up
off claims. I'm open to either of the 3 explanations :

1) The trainer moved the horse up off the claim from an Eclipse-award winning trainer.

2) Prado was able to get the horse to be comfortable, and compete from off the pace ( something the majority of bettors thought wasn't going to be possible.) I'm not saying he invented something that wasn't already there. He just was possibly able to open up something others would have found closed. He has won a couple Belmonts with horses paying an awful lot of money. He does seem to be able to get rather slow horses to make a big comfortable smooth run. When I said he got the horse to rate, I meant that he got the horse to compete from off the pace. The horse indeed was gunna be off the pace. It's just whether it was gunna try to make a winning bid from off the pace.

3) Combination of both