Big-- first of all, I never buy a horse with the idea that my trainer can improve it. I do avoid buying from certain trainers because I think my trainers might not be able to get as much out of them.

Don't know what your relationship with Annika was or what internal problems she had then, but the issues that have kept her from running are not those, not major, and not permanent. As far as I'm concerned, she should have run already, but that's another story.

The Sam Houston race for DM was definitely not my idea, and I screamed about it until the owner listened. The horse may be sold, if not he will probably go in the Strub.

I wrote a whole post ("Re: Super Frolic Buy" 9/22/05) explaining my thinking in the Supe purchase, if you do a search you should be able to find it. He was supposed to run 2 weeks ago, and will be running in the Donn 2/4, barring further (Michael) Dickensian histrionics.