Re: Drug-busting (426 Views)
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TGJB (IP Logged)
Date: February 25, 2005 01:01PM
Yeah, taking a look at what his private buys have done would be interesting. But I want to remind everyone about what I said here several times-- in the spring of 01, every horse in Frankel's barn moved to a 3-4 point new top, at the same time. These were older horses, many of them turf horses, with established tops. The chance of one horse doing that is small, the chance of several really small, the chance of all of them (Aptitude was one) statistically impossible. We heard later that was when he hired Allday.
It's easy to tell with the claiming trainers-- you can see the figures move up. But you can also tell by what % of a trainer's horses run big numbers, and what % of the time they do it-- not by how often they win.
And you can also tell by correlating that with which vet they use.
I'm heading out of town for a couple of days, you guys are on your own. Play nice.
TGJB