Bluegrass Cat Retired

[todko]

Originally Posted by Danzig188

well, i know that those of us posting on the 'other' board were talking about leroi and his status for several days leading up to the race. there was plenty of discussion about him and his feet. no doubt many who bet him either were skeptical about the news that he had poor feet, thought he wasn't that bad, thought he was good enough to win anyway, or maybe just fans who bet frankel, or heard of leroi, or liked the silks (they're so purty)....who knows why people bet the way they do?? i can't explain it. but if i, who isn't 'in the know' and doesn't hang out at the track, and doesn't have any trainers on speed dial, knew that leroi was not 100%, than i would fully expect that the info was available to anyone able to type out 'www.drf dot com' on their computer! the stories were there.
hell, people smoke when they know it's a killer, so why not put a couple down on leroi?!

Very true. But Frank Lyons was surely a piece of work on Leroi. He lost a lot of TVG clients money that day by insisting that Leroi was sound because "Frankel would never run in bar shoes on the turf". I lost all respect for Frank Lyons on that one (and some others like his diatribe supporting Balance for the '06 Oaks).

NYRA tracks are generally better about shoe information than other circuits. But the horse should have been purse only. Or they should have had a ticker running continuously saying "Leroi injured". Because that was the case.

It's always "bettor beware".