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Originally Posted by tiggerv
How much stock are you guys really putting into these workouts? I understand wanting to see a workout for a first time starter to determine if the horse has any talent or to check the fitness of a horse off a long layoff. What I don't get is the importance of 1 workout for a Derby horse that has proven race form. I mean even Hacker Craft apparently can put in a good workout. It doesn't mean I am going to bet him or claim him (sorry Chuck). Am I supposed to jump on the Court Vision bandwagon because he can work a 46 even though his proven race form says otherwise? Even a horse like Colonel John who has never run on dirt...how much is a 3F breeze going to tell you? I guarantee that there will be a lot of jockey and trainer speak about how much he loved the surface no matter what he does. I have never heard a trainer say a horse has been working like crap before a race.
Someone school me on how you are interpreting this data because I won't even look at it.
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A good clocker's report is worth it's weight in gold. It's not so much the raw times, but how the horse looked -- whether he's eager, how he carries himself, how he runs the different portions of the work, who's on him, who works with him, if there's any interaction with other horses, how he finished up, whether he was blowing when he got done and how he cooled off.
I've said this several times before, but I got burnt at Barbaro's Derby when I didn't use Bluegrass Cat on my tickets because his last prep race was a clunker, despite the fact that I liked him earlier in the year. I remember very clearly listening to ATR while I was driving from PA to Kentucky, and someone on the show (probably Steve) reporting just how good Blugrass Cat looked during his works at Churchill.