Todd Schrupp and Frank Lyons are....

[Rupert Pupkin]

Originally Posted by oracle80

Those guys are two of the coolest guys you will ever meet and the kind of guys you wish you could hang with at the track all the time.
I don't get TVg here(its not on our cable system) so I rarely if ever see it, only when I go to Kentucky for the BC or Derby. I read a lot of posts about TVG and the personalities here and just skip over them. On Wednesday though, the two of em came into Lansdon's suite(Lyons is a friend of Lans) and hung out for an hour and watched a couple races and had a drink(where they broadcast at CD is right down the hall from Lans suite). Saw em the rest of the week as well. They were absolutely two of the best folks I've met at the track ever.
Both are funny guys, and very smart, and very passionate about the game.
I don't get to see them on TV much, but anyone who knocks these guys hasn't met em, they are top notch.

Most of those guys are really nice guys. I have met Frank, Gary Seibel, Iggy, and some of the others. They are all great guys.

There was a big race last year where one of our horses grabbed a quarter really bad at the break. She stumbled so badly that the jock lost his irons and had to pull her up. I ran down to the track to see if she was alright. Her foot was all bleeding. The wound was pretty much just superficial but I didn't know that at the time. All I could see was alot of blood. It was one of the worst days of my life. I was literally practically crying. Anyway, Frank came up to me and said how sorry he was about what happened. I thought it was really nice of him because he didn't have to come up to me. I don't know him very well. I had only met him once or twice. He's just a really nice guy.

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I watch TVG every day.
dvr everything from 12PM ET until they go off the air.

I have every hour of weekend Trackside Live on dvd from the months of March to November from the past 2 years.

I have NO idea how anyone can come to the conclusion that Todd T Schrupp is a good or intellectual handicapper.
the one positive thing I can say about him is that he puts his picks out there for everyone to see, but they are less than insightful.

Frank is not on near as much as Todd but this is one of the guys who said Afleet Alex simply did not "stay" 2 turns at Oaklawn Park.
I have little use for his analysis and he is not the turf expert that TVG makes him out to be.

Caruthers is an excellent speed handicapper.
Mr B is very good on the west coast.
Vic Stauffer provides some of the most insightful analysis and is very good at pointing out and explaining class moves(up and down).
the Quarters guys are great at what they do. its a different sport, but they are great at it.
Rich Perloff is a different kind of guy with some real "out there" ways of picking horses, but he hits prices and I love the way he structures pick 3s and pick 4s based on his unique strengths as a handicapper.

Schrupp is not near the analyst that Nancy Yure(sp?) is.
or Chris K for that matter.

how in the hell Schrupp was ever Calder Race Course's "expert handicapper" is one of the great mysteries of the world.
ranks right up there with the Hanging Gardens of Babylon.



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