Great news for Charitable Man fans!

[PatCummings]

Kiaran McLaughlin happened to sit at my table for breakfast in Dubai back in March and we were the only English-speakers at the table, and we were talking about Mr. Fantasy. They had just had a conference call with the West Point folks about his prospects and going forward following the Gotham and he said the following with some slight paraphrasing...

"Owners get Derby fever, and while I understand that, you have to do everything you can to give em the best chances to be successful going forward. It's not easy to have that conversation."

You just know he's gotta be hating every second of it, but if the owners strong arm him and have the fever, what else is he gonna do - I'm sure he's trying.

[the_fat_man]

“It’s a very, very tough task to ask a horse to win a grade I off a seven-month layoff, especially a 3-year-old,” said McLaughlin. ...

“Ideally, we would have found a seven-furlong, non-winners of two for (Charitable Man), but this is what we were left with. We could have run him on April 4, but (the Keeneland Polytrack) is a kind surface. We felt like this was a good spot.

“But the main thing is, we wouldn’t have put him in here if we didn’t think he was a very special horse.”

Which leaves the door open, I would think, for a SPECIAL THOROUGHBRED OLYMPICS.
Maybe even have races for SPECIAL trainers and jocks, as well.


Kiaran, the visionary.

[dpkovalesky]

from the owners who bought you such great decisions when handling denis of cork last year, they seem to try do it again with Charitable Man

[HaloWishingwell]

what the heck they want to see if he handles the CD track try the Derby Trial. If in doubt run in him in the next carded dirt race the same day. If he takes to the track then try the Derby a week later.

[Kasept]

Originally Posted by PatCummings

Kiaran McLaughlin happened to sit at my table for breakfast in Dubai back in March and we were the only English-speakers at the table, and we were talking about Mr. Fantasy. They had just had a conference call with the West Point folks about his prospects and going forward following the Gotham and he said the following with some slight paraphrasing...

"Owners get Derby fever, and while I understand that, you have to do everything you can to give em the best chances to be successful going forward. It's not easy to have that conversation."

You just know he's gotta be hating every second of it, but if the owners strong arm him and have the fever, what else is he gonna do - I'm sure he's trying.

Isn't McLaughlin at the point in his career where he says, "Mr. Warren, if you don't like my decisions for the horse you should take him to someone else."

[VOL JACK]

Originally Posted by Kasept

Isn't McLaughlin at the point in his career where he says, "Mr. Warren, if you don't like my decisions for the horse you should take him to someone else."

You would think so...He said on Blinkers Off 'he is owned by a big owner'.
So what, just because the guy is laoded means that you do stupid sh!t with a really good horse.