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Old 05-07-2008, 06:44 PM
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The last race was the Kentucky Derby
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Old 05-07-2008, 07:02 PM
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why won't he run again? you really think he won't go to maryland?
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Old 05-07-2008, 07:05 PM
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How much can he really be worth right now with his ped and very few accomplishments?
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Old 05-07-2008, 07:31 PM
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Apparently 50 million dollars
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Old 05-07-2008, 08:55 PM
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I'm looking forward to him trying to win the triple crown. With the weak group of 3yo he has a decent chance to win all three.
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Old 05-07-2008, 09:16 PM
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it's funny tho...when horses like smarty won the derby, the hoopla and hype about what farm would get him was thru the roof. constant speculation. but not this year, when we keep seeing stuff like this excerpt:

....But the fact that the winning trainer is Richard Dutrow Jr., who has an embarrassing history of suspensions for illegal drug use, by both two- and four-footed users, opened old scars at Woodbine. Dutrow isn't officially barred at Woodbine and he might not even be denied stalls if he ever applied for them here. But they want him around like they want a guy with ebola.

Not for attribution, certain people at Woodbine will say "no way'' – with a colourful modifier included – when asked if his horses would be allowed to bed down off Rexdale Blvd.

Tom Cosgrove, the veteran director of thoroughbred racing, officially said Woodbine "would have to think about it'' if Dutrow wanted in. He trains for such Canadian powerhouse stables as Eugene Melnyk and Frank Stronach, the latter a long-time adversary of the Woodbine proprietors, but that isn't necessarily central.

"He does have a little history with us from a couple of years ago," Cosgrove added. "But has he ever asked for stalls? No, never. As far as entering horses, he entered Kip Deville last year in the Woodbine Mile, so we've already done that.''

The history here is the problem even more so than Dutrow's career list of suspensions, which is long and impressive.

Three years ago, a horse named Wild Desert showed up to win the Queen's Plate almost out of nowhere. Dutrow was trainer, although he technically was under a drug suspension and Bobby Frankel saddled the animal in the Plate.

The horse showed only two underwhelming workouts, but had been prepped in secret elsewhere and it turned out one of the bad works was a phony, anyway. Still, that day at Woodbine, Wild Desert wasn't exactly a hidden horse. The subterfuge had been detected in some quarters and the horse was touted publicly and went off at 8 to 5. Plus, no animal ever looked better in the walking ring than Wild Desert that day.

What stuck in any number of craws at Woodbine was one of Wild Desert's owners bragging post-race about winning more than $100,000 through the mutuels windows on the race. (That would be tax-free money, by the way). If it were strictly a betting coup, he likely wouldn't have broadcast it, but it was bad form, for sure, particularly for a horse that showed next to none at all.

Eventually, under prodding, an investigation was launched and, only last October, Dutrow was slapped with a 14-day suspension and $5,000 fine for making false statements to the investigation. Given Dutrow's rap sheet, this was the equivalent of a parking ticket, but the crew at Woodbine still burns about the entire exercise. The last thing anyone needed on the year's biggest day of racing is a loudmouth bragging about putting one over on the suckers.

People say forgive and forget and some day Woodbine officials might hold their noses and do the former. But they surely won't forget. Nor should they.
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Old 05-07-2008, 09:32 PM
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Would it be inappropriate for me to start a " JustinDew's last post will be....." thread?
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Old 05-07-2008, 07:05 PM
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The Preakness....foot problems won't let him get to the "test of champions"
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