Denis sparkles in drill under Borel

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.

Uh sir...

This isn't the time, nor place for making sense.

Move along now.

[slotdirt]

I would suggest with all the whacky synthetic tracks out there, how a horse works over Churchill's strip is more important than ever in terms of how a given entrant might perform in next weekend's big race. I know I'm paying attention to these works more so than I have in the past.