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Old 05-26-2007, 03:27 PM
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I've noticed a trend that horses who work just 1/8th, and in blinkers, are the most dicey when it comes to translating the ability they flashed in a preview, into ability on the racetrack.

There was a story a few weeks back, where one of Pletchers assistant trainers talked about the horse as though he might really struggle to win a major circuit maiden race--off of how he's trained.
That could be a crafty method of damage control. They bring the horse back, he wins a race or two, then they pat themselves on the back for the "miracle" of getting the horse in the winner's circle.
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Old 05-26-2007, 03:37 PM
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Yeah---Pletcher possibly did a sneaky good job of lowering the expectations as far as possible with the quotes that came from his asst. in that article.

http://sports.yahoo.com/rah/news;_yl...yhoo&type=lgns
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Old 05-26-2007, 08:57 PM
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my street sense tells me that the green monkey just sucks, and pletcher isnt playing spin games.

i'll be curlin up in a ball if i'm wrong
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Old 05-26-2007, 09:10 PM
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my street sense tells me that the green monkey just sucks, and pletcher isnt playing spin games.

i'll be curlin up in a ball if i'm wrong
Spoken like a true wildandcrazyguy.
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Old 05-26-2007, 09:15 PM
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Spoken like a true wildandcrazyguy.
Or a closeted fan of PMayJr
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