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Old 01-25-2010, 12:36 PM
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What owner would want one of theirs in a race with a Gill ?
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Old 01-25-2010, 12:36 PM
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They know how hated Gill is by other horseman they ride for.

It's calculated handwringing.
Actually its genuine fear.. A lot of kids are getting hurt
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Old 01-25-2010, 12:47 PM
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Sounds like the track vets, that are passing all of these horses, are doing a bang up job.

Maybe if they step it up a bit, this would be a NON issue.
What exactly are they supposed to see if a trainer or vet block a horse prior to prerace inspection?
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Old 01-25-2010, 12:47 PM
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Gill claims tough pro race horses...Horses that have started 20 plus times and had successful careers.. He claims anything that he thinks drugs will move up slightly and earn a few bucks with.. In a way he is smart.. claims for 5k drops to 4k adds drugs and looks to win a 7200 pay day.. jacobsen does the same crap but I havent seen many of his breakdown. I am all for racing horses when they are ok but you have to admit Gill is cheating and doing it unsafely
most likely the reason you see Gills and his type at track like penn is they must get past the vets get in the race, a guy like a Jacobsen will claim a horse for 20-25 and run em for 5k. You wont see as many break down during a race but you will see just as many disappear because either the NY stewards wont let em get back in a race or they broke down in training, or they just cant run anymore. Rarely do those type trainers horse last from season to season or meet to meet. They know they are holding a "hot potato" and the last one holding is the loser.
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Old 01-25-2010, 01:09 PM
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If they don't want to ride his horses ... all they have to do is tell their agent that.
I'm not talking about jocks that ride for Gill, I am talking about all the other jocks and horses in a race with Gill.

The guy/gal taking the call on the Gill horse knows the risk, win at 20% or get put in the dirt 12%.

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Old 01-25-2010, 01:19 PM
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Migliore was put in the hospital over the weekend after a Mark Hennig horse broke down ... said horse was a 260K yearling who had good early speed and had been fairly competitive in allowance races.

He ran one bad race .. and was jammed in for a 25K tag instead of being allowed time off.

The horse died ... and atleast one owner (Maggie Moss) reached in to claim the horse for 25K.

Those are the types Gill will claim now ... except think 4K-to-10K instead of 25K. Some turn it around - some don't - and some go down.

I doubt the fate of the majority of those horses would have been any different if they raced under small-fry connections.
I know the Mig story well, and we all know the inherent risk in racing. Even the PG's of this board are not ignorant or, perhaps in your case, arrogant enough to not realize this is a sport where breakdowns happen but this is a differnt case.

This is a case of an owner and his team of trainers are not caring about the horses and/or those who ride. He would rather win at 20%, and turn profits, then care for the issues at hand. Gill and crew are creating an environment where the inherited risk of racing is multiplied by the actions of Gill himself, his training staff and those who let those horses race. To think this is just part of racing is wrong, this is a man who cares about making a buck more then the lives of his horses, his jocks, his excercise riders, and those who are on the track with him. He is no different than Paragallo and others who should be banned from the sport.

The alarming rate at which he has horses going down has even the jockey colony at Penn National running scared, trainers reaching out to track managment and yet you think this is something that is just part of the sport and should not be looked at any other way?
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Old 01-25-2010, 01:45 PM
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The guy/gal taking the call on the Gill horse knows the risk, win at 20% or get put in the dirt 12%.
12%?

So 120 times a jockey has hit the dirt on a Gill horse at Penn National over the last year?
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I know the Mig story well, and we all know the inherent risk in racing. Even the PG's of this board are not ignorant or, perhaps in your case, arrogant enough to not realize this is a sport where breakdowns happen but this is a differnt case.

This is a case of an owner and his team of trainers are not caring about the horses and/or those who ride. He would rather win at 20%, and turn profits, then care for the issues at hand. Gill and crew are creating an environment where the inherited risk of racing is multiplied by the actions of Gill himself, his training staff and those who let those horses race. To think this is just part of racing is wrong, this is a man who cares about making a buck more then the lives of his horses, his jocks, his excercise riders, and those who are on the track with him. He is no different than Paragallo and others who should be banned from the sport.

The alarming rate at which he has horses going down has even the jockey colony at Penn National running scared, trainers reaching out to track managment and yet you think this is something that is just part of the sport and should not be looked at any other way?

Good post.
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Old 01-25-2010, 01:49 PM
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12%?

So 120 times a jockey has hit the dirt on a Gill horse at Penn National over the last year?
DrugS, you're watching more races than anyone, have you seen any barn turn out 14 horses that have either pulled up, DNF or completely broke down in 3 months? While the quoted poster's percentage may be off this is a ridiculous amount.
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Old 01-25-2010, 02:04 PM
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Probably Dale Baird.
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Old 01-25-2010, 02:15 PM
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12%?

So 120 times a jockey has hit the dirt on a Gill horse at Penn National over the last year?
Obviously an inflated statistic to make my point. However, if you look at how many starts his two trainers have made this year (49) and how many have brokedown (2), that would be 4%. I am not sure however that all starts made by Delahoussaye and Adamo have been owned by Gill, so that percentage could be higher and closer to 12% than 0%.

If you streteched those stats out over the last three months, assuming that both trainers made the similar starts (which easily could not be the case), then you are looking at a 10% breakdown rate. I would guess, that is considerably higher than Baird or anyone else you could some up with.
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Old 01-25-2010, 02:49 PM
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You mean to tell me "Sting" Ray Ganpath wont even ride for him anymore???
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Old 01-25-2010, 03:05 PM
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I could understand the jocks not wanting to ride for him at Philly Park - he's 8-for-117 with a laughable $0.89 ROI at Philly since November.
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Old 01-25-2010, 03:07 PM
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Probably Dale Baird.
Mitchell would exceed those numbers if he ran as many and was strictly claiming horses.

I know an owner that had a horse with Mitchell, claimed for 25k won for 50k two weeks later, then went on a losing streak just below that level down to 32k. The owner flat out told him to drop the horse as he cant win there and he is tired of paying the bills for the horse.....

two weeks later he won a nw1x for a 55k purse and ran a lifetime top. I have no clue what happened to the horse, he was running for 8k last I saw.

Also that same horse, when he won for the initial 50k we cleared many thousands on the horse, he was about 10/1 and Mitchell flat out said he should be 3/5 an hour before the races started.
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Old 01-25-2010, 03:21 PM
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Mitchell would exceed those numbers if he ran as many and was strictly claiming horses.

I know an owner that had a horse with Mitchell, claimed for 25k won for 50k two weeks later, then went on a losing streak just below that level down to 32k. The owner flat out told him to drop the horse as he cant win there and he is tired of paying the bills for the horse.....

two weeks later he won a nw1x for a 55k purse and ran a lifetime top. I have no clue what happened to the horse, he was running for 8k last I saw.

Also that same horse, when he won for the initial 50k we cleared many thousands on the horse, he was about 10/1 and Mitchell flat out said he should be 3/5 an hour before the races started.
I wonder why
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Old 01-25-2010, 03:48 PM
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More Gill goodies.

http://drf.com/news/article/110354.html
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This is a case of an owner and his team of trainers are not caring about the horses and/or those who ride. He would rather win at 20%, and turn profits, then care for the issues at hand. Gill and crew are creating an environment where the inherited risk of racing is multiplied by the actions of Gill himself, his training staff and those who let those horses race. To think this is just part of racing is wrong, this is a man who cares about making a buck more then the lives of his horses, his jocks, his excercise riders, and those who are on the track with him. He is no different than Paragallo and others who should be banned from the sport.
You could substitute just about any industry for horse racing and it's the same thing. It's the reason the government had to pass labor laws, safety laws, and, for all the pain-in-the-ass they can be, the reason labor unions formed. Because there are plenty of owners of any sort of business that are interested solely in making a profit and everything else is just expenses.
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Sounds like the track vets, that are passing all of these horses, are doing a bang up job.

Maybe if they step it up a bit, this would be a NON issue.
Agree with this, but part of the problem is he has a private farm and ships them in- and somehow he's skirting part of the prerace vet rules because of it. Don't know the laws on how that works in PA but that seems to be the rumor.
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This thread is a bunch of misguided animal lovers not understanding two very fundamental things about horse racing.

1. The sport is all about money. Period. If there wasn't money to be won, hardly anyone would want to race horses. Only the already rich would be involved at all.

2. This is not a hobby. This is a business when you own the horses. Period. At the end of the month the owner can't tell the trainer, vet, dentist, etc that I shouldn't pay this month because I am a great person who didn't start my horse who has a slightly sore ankle. It doesn't work well, I've tried.

Gill is not the greatest person in the world, but he is running his stable like a business and if animal lovers don't like it, then don't support horse racing until they change all the rules to suit you. Period.

I've owned horses. It is a tough business in every aspect. Posting a bunch of crap about a guy or his practices (the same practices as many other but on a larger scale) is much easier.
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Old 01-25-2010, 05:51 PM
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This thread is a bunch of misguided animal lovers not understanding two very fundamental things about horse racing.

1. The sport is all about money. Period. If there wasn't money to be won, hardly anyone would want to race horses. Only the already rich would be involved at all.

2. This is not a hobby. This is a business when you own the horses. Period. At the end of the month the owner can't tell the trainer, vet, dentist, etc that I shouldn't pay this month because I am a great person who didn't start my horse who has a slightly sore ankle. It doesn't work well, I've tried.

Gill is not the greatest person in the world, but he is running his stable like a business and if animal lovers don't like it, then don't support horse racing until they change all the rules to suit you. Period.

I've owned horses. It is a tough business in every aspect. Posting a bunch of crap about a guy or his practices (the same practices as many other but on a larger scale) is much easier.
As much as it pains me... Sharp post
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