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Old 05-28-2009, 09:27 PM
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Another Jones horse breaks down. I'm stunned.
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Old 05-28-2009, 09:45 PM
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Another Jones horse breaks down. I'm stunned.

Few things in the game piss me off more than finding out a horse I bet on was injured before a high profile race such as a TC event and later the connections fess up that they "knew" something just didn't seem right after the race.

If those two fractures have "healing lines" on the films they didn't occur in the Preakness but more likely the Derby which just makes the whole thing ......aww forget it. I should know better by now...
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Old 05-28-2009, 09:47 PM
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O/U on his retirement date....8/11
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Old 05-28-2009, 09:48 PM
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Old 05-28-2009, 09:52 PM
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I'll take the over. If Pyro can attempt a comeback, anyone can....
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Old 05-28-2009, 09:51 PM
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Vinery is probably preparing the stall right now....
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Old 05-28-2009, 09:57 PM
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O/U on his retirement date....8/11
Hey, 8/11 is my birthday. Sounds like a good date. I expected him to bounce back in the Preakness, now I know why he didn't. Too bad they didn't "check him out" BEFORE the Preakness.
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Old 05-28-2009, 10:06 PM
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No duh he was injured. Anyone believing him to be sound going into the Preakness needs to find a clue.

I'll take the over on the retirement date. He won't be retired until they 'try' to bring him back but 'decide' he's too nice a horse to risk coming back. I imagine this will happen in the months just before breeding season starts.
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Old 05-28-2009, 10:13 PM
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No duh he was injured. Anyone believing him to be sound going into the Preakness needs to find a clue.

I'll take the over on the retirement date. He won't be retired until they 'try' to bring him back but 'decide' he's too nice a horse to risk coming back. I imagine this will happen in the months just before breeding season starts.
or the 'we wanted him back for the bc, but that won't happen so...' off he'll go. i do believe the old fashioned line was 'he won't be the same' so off he went.
hard to say right now tho, with stud fees down and the like. altho, with vinery being half owner, you'd think they'd just ship him home.
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Old 05-28-2009, 10:15 PM
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No duh he was injured. Anyone believing him to be sound going into the Preakness needs to find a clue.

I'll take the over on the retirement date. He won't be retired until they 'try' to bring him back but 'decide' he's too nice a horse to risk coming back. I imagine this will happen in the months just before breeding season starts.

makes me wonder about that seven week break before the derby. wonder if there was something cooking back after his last, and that's why they had the big break? i really wondered then if everything was all bright and shiny, that they really intended to do all that.
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Old 05-28-2009, 10:16 PM
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Bone chips are considered breakdowns now? Poor broken down Rachel Alexandra.

There are plenty of stress fractures that are not visible on even excellent digital radiographs. Nobody here knows if the horse (who was training very well) was radiographed after the Derby and before the Preakness, and vetted perfectly clean; only later to have the stress fracture found, visible only via nuclear scintigraphy.
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Old 05-28-2009, 10:22 PM
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Another Jones horse breaks down. I'm stunned.
How do you think he will do as a stallion?
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Old 05-28-2009, 10:29 PM
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Old 05-29-2009, 12:02 AM
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Does this mean Larry Jones will finally retire? I think he's the one that's done enough. And I mean that in a good way, I understand why he couldn't quit after 8 Belles (RIP) but now he can go and at least regroup.
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