BC Mile - George Washington

Originally Posted by The Bid

I dont think its the trainers in the United States that get the speed out of the horses, its the breeders. They are bred to be speed balls, all the trainer has to do is go out there and cut them lose. Of course American horses are going to be faster, they are bred that way, they are jacked up on equipoise, they are full of Deca, Lasix, Tren, Winstrol, god knows what else.

Orcale, I do not mean to say all trainers in the states are poor. There are some very very talented trainers. However, I would be willing to say that the horsemanship in general in Europe is much better. From yard help, on through the breeding.

Thats nonsense Bid. Yard help? Well lets see, none of our good trainers train from "Yards". They take barns on the backside. And as far as breeding goes, thats nonsense as well. You guys basically get all the pricey Storm Cats, noone breeds more speed than him. Yet I seem to remember Hold That Tiger and several dozen more spotting everyone 10 lengths at the gate.
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Your trainers don't even have to worry about gate schooling. And that whole horsemanship thing is a joke as well. Look, the notion that because some guy dresses well and trains in a yard where every horses training chart says "gallop" every day (do they even make charts? I guess they don't need to, be a huge waste of paper and time to just write in Gallop 7 times each week next to every horse) means that he is a "horseman" is just rubbish.
Wanna know what "horsemanship" is? Horsemanship is trying to figure out how to get a horse to attend a blistering pace in a 20 horse field and keep on running for 10F.
Now, when one of those "great horsemen" figure out how to do that(like my trainer friend says, they can't, they don't know how to), I figure we will see one of them in the winners circle at the Kentucky Derby.
Lets just say I'm not holding my breath. They will never do it. I think its pretty obvious that the so called "horsemen" over there are one trick ponies who only kow how to train a horse one way to one thing.
Gallop, gallop, gallop, gallop, gallop. Sounds pretty complex huh?