Re: Columbo (693 Views)
Posted by:
Barry Irwin (IP Logged)
Date: August 15, 2007 09:31AM
Here goes my final comment about Lawyer Ron.
Any trainer will tell you that the most important person in dealing with a racehorse is the exercise rider.
You can take a top horse, give him an incompetent exercise rider and in less than a day or two that has horse can be rendered useless.
I have heard this time and time again over the last 38 years in racing.
It is a measure of The Clown's mania over proving that Pletcher is a bad guy that he not only overlooks this important information, but calls it comical.
I am not making this stuff up.
I am the guy who bought the horse for the current majority owner. I saw the problem with my own eyes. And everybody at Churchill Downs knows that the horse was compromised by the exercise rider.
Now anybody that will not even consider this change of riders to be important just doesn't want to listen. In the case of The Clown, he has an agenda that leaves no room for this explanation.