CD studying races

[philcski]

Originally Posted by Cannon Shell

I admit to some mularkey on occasion.

But to answer your question it is very easy to obtain a vet scratch and you open up a whole can of worms if you start having state vets try to overrule calls made by the private vets.

...which brings me to my point that there should be a state vet system overseeing ALL trainers.

Originally Posted by MisterB

You should have more horsemen like Bobby. He doesn't run lame horse, or ones that are sick just to run. You guys crack me up with your arm chair training licences.

Yeah, for very recent examples First Defence and Saint Anddan were really sick or lame on July 4th. Come on! He's got a ton of stalls and hardly runs his horses.

Originally Posted by MisterB

Pletcher has great stock too, but neither one has a Derby under their belt. Great Stock can go down just as fast as any other horse if poorly trained. If you think short fields are caused by Bobby Frankel, we are in trouble. Frankel doesn't even race allot in NY to make a difference in the field size. Most races in NY are for State breds now. AQU has the shortest fields in the country, and Frankel doesn't run their. Believe me, I hear this about Bobby all the time, it's normally someone who wanted to bet his horse that was scratched. What is his win percentage, that's what counts.

Try again, he ran 13 horses at the AQU fall meet last year.

But took away stalls from someone who would have run twice as much.