Jerardi: Guerrero just a better trainer than everyone else

[Split Rock]

This article has to be tounge in cheek. No way does anyone who has been around the game for more than 10 racing days believe this trainer is legitimate.

It really is sad that scumbags like this trainer are allowed to completely fleece the other trainers and public on a daily basis and are brazen enough to act like they are just better than everyone else. I could care less overall but just once in my life I would love to see the FBI come down on someone like this. I can't think of someone more deserving of prison.

Sadly, I just don't think this crap hits the radar screen of those that can put bite into this issue. These trainers will be allowed to work their "ice magic" daily at the expense of other less fortunate or honest horseman.

[Cannon Shell]

After reading this again I have a hard time saying this article was written tongue in cheek. Please show me a single line that could be construed as such?

[PatCummings]

Originally Posted by Cannon Shell

After reading this again I have a hard time saying this article was written tongue in cheek. Please show me a single line that could be construed as such?

"He has a brand new ice machine. His horses stand in ice to soothe their legs."

Do you know Dick Jerardi, Chuck? Seriously - half of everything he says is tongue-in-cheek. This line above would be from someone who knows NOTHING about racing, writing about it. Jerardi knows how foolish this sounds when he writes it.

"This being the race track, there are more than a few theories."

" 'There is no miracle drug,' Guerrero assured. 'They test too much.' Whatever it is, Carlos Guerrero has figured it out. It is definitely his time."

Here's the bottom line - this (seems to me to be) an article to get all the public comment out there on Guerrero. Let the insinuations be what they are, and then get all Guerrero's comments on the record...and we'll see what happens in the future.

[Cannon Shell]

Originally Posted by PatCummings

"He has a brand new ice machine. His horses stand in ice to soothe their legs."

Do you know Dick Jerardi, Chuck? Seriously - half of everything he says is tongue-in-cheek. This line above would be from someone who knows NOTHING about racing, writing about it. Jerardi knows how foolish this sounds when he writes it.

"This being the race track, there are more than a few theories."

" 'There is no miracle drug,' Guerrero assured. 'They test too much.' Whatever it is, Carlos Guerrero has figured it out. It is definitely his time."

Here's the bottom line - this (seems to me to be) an article to get all the public comment out there on Guerrero. Let the insinuations be what they are, and then get all Guerrero's comments on the record...and we'll see what happens in the future.

I think you are reading far too much into this. What is Guerrero supposed to say? Yeah I hop all of them? Jerardi basically offers up multiple defenses for the guy in a general news publication. What is he supposed to say about a new ice machine? That the grooms use it to keep the beer cold? Why offer up that he has examined all the guys horses records over the last 2 years and suggests that he believes what Guerrero tells him about claiming horses that formerly had 80 beyers? Why say that his style of running horses back isnt typical of trainers using illegal drugs? Why would you write in this style when it would be very easy to point out the dubious claims to your mostly uneducated readership?