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05-20-2012, 11:02 AM
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It would be a great story for Mario and I have nothing against the horse (although his last lunge to get Bode at the wire yesterday just crushed my soul), I just personally find it hard to root for a guy like O'Neil.
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05-20-2012, 11:27 AM
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I hope he wins the triple crown because it would be great for racing. The horse only sold for $35,000 which makes potential owners see that you don' t have to spend millions to have a quality horse. The connections aren't great but at least it isn't one of the mega-trainers. O'Neill is personable,very good with the press, and is making himself available to just about anyone who asks. He has a few skeletons in his closet but so do many in this industry.
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05-20-2012, 11:31 AM
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The owner is the concern. That's potentially a media disaster.
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05-20-2012, 11:54 AM
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To paraphrase the Clinton campaign....It's the horse stupid! I have nothing against O'Neill, seems like a good guy to me but even if I did, I would still root for this ultra-game horse to win the TC. I've been waiting for a TC winner for a long time, been fortunate enough to see three of them and the elation is like nothing else. Racing needs a TC winner and we've been disappointed so many times.
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05-20-2012, 12:50 PM
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05-20-2012, 03:05 PM
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05-20-2012, 07:11 PM
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You can't always have it both ways. Last year everyone hated Repole, before that it was all of the connections of Big Brown. It's horse racing. Good luck finding the "cookie cutter" Owner/Trainer combination. It's actually pretty hypocritical.
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