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Originally Posted by Linny
Works are important if you know what you are looking at. I sometimes wonder if the writers that cover them have any idea what they are seeing or if they are just parrotting the trainers comments. Some writers seem so dazzled by the experience that every horse looks AMAZING! Guess what, they are Derby colts, they are supposed to look great. They are not supposed to look like $5k horses at Beulah.
What I want is for a Derby reporter to linger in the shedrow to see a concerned looking trainer consulting with a farrier and tell me about it. That trainer told the press this morning that his horse has never been better and no one in the group knows what a quarter crack looks like. Sadly, for that kind of scoop I need to go to Indian Charlie. 
Did no one in the media think something was up with Eskendereya when all of TAP's others trained on schedule? I didn't see anything about it if they did. |
exactly. all the derby horses look like a million bucks at this stage. The only important thing to take from Derby week works are if the horse looks really off. Then again, hopefully said horse would be scratched from the race. I do believe that people, including Steve, were mentioning how Eskendereya looked sore and wasnt training right.
I would like the reporters to be able to go into the barns and check to see if there is any really good juice laying around. That would be helpful!