Re: Always negative (887 Views)
Posted by:
miff (IP Logged)
Date: May 07, 2009 02:04PM
Cov,
All types can get knocked out from an effort that hurts them, it could a TG 5 or a TG -3. The reason you and others think the way you do is because you are paying most of your attention to the highest level of racing and not All of racing. There are many more breakdowns/over the tops etc at the lower level(mainly because there are many more lower level horses racing overall, simple law of probabilities overall)
It's not that simple, you and others are trying to establish something from a number on a piece of paper which trainers in the Hall of Fame who spend countless hours/years around these animals every day,cannot.When a horse is over the top, when it might break down, etc is near impossible to tell. Pure hit and miss especially when a horse seems to be doing great and then runs awful or breaks down.
Go over and talk to Alan Jerkens about some of your beliefs on rest,spacing, stress/efforts et al and see what he tells you, serious, you'll thank me.
Lastly your statement that "horses that run big figs get knocked out" is so far off the wall that it's pathetic. Would you like to make a serious wager that for every horse that you say got knocked out by figs, I'll name two or more that did not. We'll use TG figs for the last 5 years.Let me know.
Mike