This is wrong...

[ShadowRoll]

Originally Posted by Cannon Shell

http://www.paulickreport.com/news/th...avre-de-grace/

Buried at the end of this story is this:
"In addition to the purse increase, Porter and trainer Larry Jones found out that the weight assignment for the New Orleans Ladies would be more advantageous than they were orginally told."


I have no problem with tracks upping purses or using that type of incentive to attract big names but moving the date of the race or changing weight assignments seem like stretching the bounds of integrity.

I noticed that, too. Maybe they reviewed the Del Cap and decided that she's not as fast as they originally thought.

[Merlinsky]

I remember Bobby Frankel's public angsting over the possibility that Sightseek might have to carry 122 once. You'd think he'd been asked to hitch her to an anvil which she'd then have to drag around the track.

No Horse of the Year needs to be running anywhere for 117 lbs. What handicap weights would be fair to the other horses in that situation? Maybe instead of a jockey, just tie a 100 lb German Shepherd to the saddle, load em into the gate and hope for the best. You know those guys are still mad about the weight break vs. Blind Luck. People need to stop losing their s**t over a pound or two. I think in some cases it's worth getting upset about weight. Like how Man O'War didn't run at 4 because Riddle was told he'd regularly be looking at 140+ and they didn't wanna risk him bowing a tendon. Maybe you're going 1 1/4 or 1 1/2 and giving 10-15 lbs to a loose on the lead type. Gripe then. This was just stupid.