Fresh Horses (1148 Views)
Posted by:
Chuckles_the_Clown2 (IP Logged)
Date: June 03, 2006 10:05AM
Heres the latest from Greg Gilcrist. Its starting to become apparent why he doesnt have any Breeders Cup victories nor any Triple Crown experience.
First a correction. Foggy apparently has beaten his elders in the Bay Meadows Sprint Handicap. Someone misspoke.
Anyway, Gilcrist says Foggy was a tired horse last year and that you can't "pile up" seven or eight races leading into the Breeders Cup. He says if you do, you will have a tired horse.
Well, here we are in June and Gilcrist has one losing effort in Foggy. If he runs him once every two months he'll have about 4 starts heading into the B.C.Sprint.
Seven or Eight races leading into the last start of the year is a lot of races? If it is, you just don't have enough horse Mr. Gilcrist. Or enough trainer.
These guys are getting ridiculous. Time to put the handicapping hat on and put this Foggy in his place. P.S. they didn't deserve it last year but 4 starts will not get a repeat of that bogus Champion Sprinter award:
"The main thing is not to have seven or eight races piled up if you are going to make it to the Breeders' Cup," said Gilchrist. "I think we went in (with) more of a tired horse last year than we did a fresh horse, so we're trying to avoid that."
by the way Greg, you went in with a decidedly inferior horse.
http://racing.bloodhorse.com/viewstory.asp?id=33821
Edited 1 time(s). Last edit at 06/03/2006 10:08AM by Chuckles_the_Clown2.
Sorry, only registered users may post in this forum.