Class,

I am also aware of what you mean regarding legit barn streaks, hot or cold.I once had six horses(out of eight) who were sick, sore, bowed tendons, checked ligaments, you name it.

Since you appear to have also been around New York, can you honestly say that you have not noticed more previously obscure, losing trainers do dramatically better in the last few years. And some of these "deadly" lay off trainers that get consistently explosive performances from a large portion of their horses after 60-120 day lay offs.

A good friend who is a NY trainer swears the supertrainers are "spoon" feeding their horses this juice day by day slowly building the horse up to these explosive performances.(zero proof)

I'm not paranoid or cynical, but I've been around too long to believe that there isn't something very profound happening in certain barns.I could list a few trainers and two supertrainers who are as guilty as sin IMO, but this is America, so I'll wait until they are caught, if ever.


On a little disappointing note, it seems that the Feds are zeroing in on the Mafia BS, Money Laundering, Tax Stuff, but not the drug issue beyond 'SHAKES" Martin a fairly obscure losing trainer for several years.



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