Baffert responds to criticism over Tweebster

[Dahoss]

Originally Posted by RockHardTen1985

Horses break down daily. Its a shitty part of the game we all love. Does every trainer release a public apology? Baffert is the best trainer in the world, lets give him a break.

I rest my case.

[Rudeboyelvis]

The horse was completely mismanaged - I guess this was the owners doing, but he was always in over his head. He was a glorified 30-40k claimer that would occasionally hit the board in bad west coast graded races - but hadn't won a race in over 2 years.
What did seem odd was that his preferred surface, Hollywood Park, was completely ignored this fall (possibly due to issues) and brought back over an off SA track.

I completely agree that if it was any other trainer, there wouldn't have been a mention.

But to infer that this horse was "stakes caliber" dropping, while technically accurate, wasn't really at all the case.

There was a similar horse that Baffert dropped to 12.5 claimer (after a long layoff and winning with a very high beyer speed figure in an ALW the race before) last year at Santa Anita that won and was claimed by Mark Glatt that won a couple of races for him. I believe the horse's name is Solar Rocket

[slotdirt]

I see Joe Drape is still being Joe Drape...