How a horse improves by 20+ lengths in a month...

[asudevil]

Originally Posted by The Indomitable DrugS

When Left Bank won the Whitney in 2002 .. he ran 9fs at Saratoga in 1:47 flat and equaled the track record.

That Shifty Sheik horse ran 1:47 2/5 in the mud going 9fs at Saratoga just 5 days after missing the board in a claiming race in his first start for Oscar.

The very same year - Slew O' Gold beat Track Barron in 1:48 3/5ths in the Whitney. Obviously two different days ... but damn.

When I first started following racing - Oscar was a laughably bad trainer - I mean as bad as it gets. His son is a ham and egger at Finger Lakes and he's way better than Oscar was. I always thought my father was lying to me when he'd tell me stories about Oscar's greatness.

He once tried to convince me that a lot attendant at his car lot was the greatest Jai Alai player of the 80's .. he took me to some little musem at a fronton in Miami. The guy had the same name as the lot attendant - but obviously it wasn't the same person.

Joey???....The great Jewish cesta snd pelota slinger?

[The Indomitable DrugS]

Originally Posted by asudevil

Joey???....The great Jewish cesta snd pelota slinger?

Yes ... Joey Long was the name of the guy who washed cars.

My father was obsessed with trying to convince me that Joey Long was the great Joey.

[asudevil]

Originally Posted by The Indomitable DrugS

Yes ... Joey Long was the name of the guy who washed cars.

My father was obsessed with trying to convince me that Joey Long was the great Joey.

There was no crowd bias for Joey or anything.