JohnTChance Wrote:
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> Chuckles,
>
> Previously, you asked if "good horses" were
> "eluding" Dickinson.
>
> If "good horses" are "eluding" him, maybe it has
> to do with the idea that Dickinson doesn't run his
> horses enough to please impatient, or even pretty
> darn patient, owners. Apparently the stars, the
> moon and the sun have to be aligned just right for
> him to run one. After the initial delight of
> having him train for them, hoping he'll take them
> to The Promised Land, thinking he is some kind of
> "Mad Genius" his reputation says he is, you soon
> realize that he's just another steroid trainer...
> and things change. Maybe months pass with setbacks
> and inactivity. The clock ticks and owners lose
> money, lose joy and they get frustrated to the
> point where they remove their horses with him.
>

Well, he did have that success with Da Hoss, though TGraph was instrumental in that one.

He did have Tapit. Though TGraph also said he wasn't fast enough and was bearing in during his Wood win due to "Ouch". Think Tapit only ran twice more after the Wood and not particularly well either.

Maybe Dickinson isn't the Mad Genius after all. Maybe he's just Mad. Maybe the real Mad Genius is Jerry Brown. Certainly part Genius, but maybe the "Mad" in "Mad Genius Jerry Brown" comes from guys that question a figure or two occasionally. Like Alysheba, figured beaten Bellamy Road margins by today's horses.

That ought to get him going.