Re: Surgeries and procedures (456 Views)
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Date: July 22, 2005 09:12AM
NCT,
Just to be clear, the poker game I was referring to is the suspicious dropdown - where for example a horse that was just very competitive for 35K is suddenly entered for 20k-25k or a well bred horse drops from MSW into maiden claiming. A potential "horse claimer", has to decide whether the drop down means the current owners are looking to steal a purse or get rid of damaged goods. I don't have too much of problem with that since that's the way the "claiming game" has been played for as long as I've been round and handicappers can study trainer moves and play the same game with bets. It isn't a negotiated transaction where you would get to examine the horse. I think it's a matter of what we need to know and what we don't need to know, but I don't think we need to know about every ache and pain, ice bucket, swelling, and missed day of training. Just the bigger procedures.