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12-13-2008, 11:47 AM
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John Gaines had some different ideas, but he has to be turning over in his grave.
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"Have the clean racing people run any ads explaining that giving a horse a Starbucks and a chocolate poppyseed muffin for breakfast would likely result in a ten year suspension for the trainer?" - Dr. Andrew Roberts 
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12-14-2008, 06:17 PM
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The fact is that many breeders nominate "moderately" bred individuals to the program because of the stakes opportunities. Many of these type horses (based on pedigree and foal conformation) are not considered likely to ever run in "the big day" of racing but could find their way into some of the supplemented stakes. I hear that breeders in this category are far less likely to nominate foals as a result of this change.
BCL doesn't care now, but if enough withhold nominations it ads up. Also, they have the possibility of getting huge supplementals if any of those moderate horses end up contenders for BC day races.
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RIP Monroe.
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12-14-2008, 07:43 PM
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How are the tracks supposed to fund these stakes now?
When is Steve having someone from Breeders Cup on ATR? (stand back, I won't want to miss that) What are the individual tracks saying?
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"Have the clean racing people run any ads explaining that giving a horse a Starbucks and a chocolate poppyseed muffin for breakfast would likely result in a ten year suspension for the trainer?" - Dr. Andrew Roberts
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12-15-2008, 06:50 AM
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This really got my blood pressure up -- I'm angry. As Steve said, if they cared at all about the game they never would have done this, certainly not all at once and so severely if they did need to pull back on 2009's contribution. Instead, they now put many recognizable stakes events into jeopardy.
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