richiebee Wrote:
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> Yup, they put millions of dollars into the game
> and turn their runners over to
> astute horsemen like Navarro and Servis.
>
> Silver, Tavasco and everyone else is entitled to
> their opinion, the same way
> you can wave your pompoms and tell us how great a
> game Racing is, how the glass
> is half full, blah blah blah. Over the last 40
> years I have seen things
> backside and frontside that might lead me to
> conclude that Three Card Monty is
> a more noble pursuit than the Sport of Kings. I
> love the Sport but harbor no illusions.
>
> Tavasco says that a 9 furlong one turn Belmont
> which has been turned into a
> Derby prep which will likely feature Baffert v
> Barclay doesn't excite him. The
> man apparently pays his dues each night, betting
> on Asia Pacific tracks while
> most of us are answering to our water pills.
>
> Yeah, I'm shedding a tear for you buddies with
> millions of dollars worth of
> idle horseflesh and the training bills piling up;
> if I focus on their
> predicament maybe I can take my mind off of the
> millions of unemployed, the
> hundreds of thousands dead and the shuttered
> businesses that may never reopen,
> not to mention the fact that Eddie Haskell is
> dead.

You make the rest of us here look like literary claiming horses, while you are clearly GR 1 caliber.

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