Butch Lehr on bias controversy -- Horseplayer Daily

[brianwspencer]

Originally Posted by SCUDSBROTHER

The quote has to be given time and again,because people constantly say that Thor's Echo wasn't on the rail.Well he was on the rail,and Nakatani didn't want to get off the rail.He had to get off it.You'll see him try to get back to the rail later in the race.He moves back over towards it.He and Oneil know it was a golden rail.They have said it was a golden rail,but it seems to go right through you people.Yes,Bordonaro was down towards the rail,but again,if you ever simply listen to the connections of horses,you won't have to ask why Thor has to go around him.Patrick said the horse never got ahold of that track at all.See,they had 2 problems that day:

1)Golden Rail

2)a ton of horses could not get ahold of that track that day.QLM was the 1st to show how crappy that track was,but there are gunna be a lot,lot more,and this is gunna be a well documented piece of crap track.

Our assessments of that quote just don't match up, and I'm okay with saying that. I think it shows nothing.

And QLM was the first horse to show that: running from the back of the pack in a race in which the best horse got to set a dawdling pace on the front end while getting zero pressure from the second best horse in the race who was coincidentally running second -- is NOT the way you win any race, let alone the Breeder's Cup. Again, no point at all here.

[SCUDSBROTHER]

Originally Posted by brianwspencer

Our assessments of that quote just don't match up, and I'm okay with saying that. I think it shows nothing.

And QLM was the first horse to show that: running from the back of the pack in a race in which the best horse got to set a dawdling pace on the front end while getting zero pressure from the second best horse in the race who was coincidentally running second -- is NOT the way you win any race, let alone the Breeder's Cup. Again, no point at all here.

The thing is that I shouldn't have to sell you or anybody on this.An objective eye would see the bias on it's own.You should be coming to this conclusion on your own.I am very surprised that people, who say they are cappers,don't see the obvious.Amazes me.C.Q. TAKES THE OUTSIDE IN THE STRETCH,AND STRUGGLES WITH THAT SURFACE OUT THERE(you somehow can't see that.)Then (at the same time) 'Street' takes the inside route,and acts like a car going from dirt to pavement.Big difference.They didn't look like they were gunna be 10 lengths apart.That's not what it looked like before they went their separate ways.It really isn't as hard to see as you guys are making it.