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Originally Posted by Dixie Porter
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Originally Posted by Kasept
If there was an unhappiness with things you think they could have made a rider switch first, had McKee specifically been the issue..
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Steve that is the statement of a "rank amateur". Riders mean nothing, although they ALL screw up many times.
As far as the trainer switch (I know NOTHING about it) but any of these switches from one of these "flavor of the month" trainers to one of the guys that's won 500 stakes is MORE OFTEN than NOT a good move.
I do not understand how he could wind up with TP if the contract was specific about "no trainer change". |
DP..
If riders screw up many times, then I suppose they DO mean something in the scheme of things.. And on the subject of horses that DEMAND the lead, they mean a ton.
You don't see where a guy as small as McKee is ineffectual on this horse? And that his attempted chokeholds are the problem? Please.. As mentioned way back in the thread, the death of Precisionist this week just happened to bring out trainer Ross Fenstermaker and a discussion of how he had McCarron learn to let the horse relax. He had him drop the reins, grab mane and let Precisionist 'rate himself'... which is what many a horse will do. But if you pull on a horse, he pulls back. Wasted energy on both side of the equation...
Still no word on the details of the trainer stipulation in the bill of sale... But I heard from an employee involved in this at CD yesterday, and he said that the Holthus people had been under the impression, likely from the Hines people, that the horse would finish his career under their supervision...
The move is 'wrong' on many fronts, and while horses have been moved forever, this particular episode is another symptom in an ill patient...