TGJB wrote the following:

“ it wasn't about our differing philosophies of figure making, sprints/routes, sliding variants”

If you could please discuss for me (and others) what you mean when say you and Ragozin have differing philosophies regarding sprints/routes. The reason is when I read some of the responses on the other Board I really begin to believe that the only thing that matters to some of their guys is “Robes posted after the race that he won so the figures must be right”.

The following from somebody who has put some humorous posts up on their Board unfortunately this is probably another one even though he/she didn’t mean it to be.

This:

“I thought about that as I considered how The Sheets keep nailing races even though they "missed the Wood, missed the Wood!!" All the 2yo CA #s were wrong as well.”

And this:

“You're assessments of Scrimshaw have been especially accurate”.

What I want everyone to think about is Scrimshaw was given a 1 on Ragozin sheets last fall as a two year old. When the Wayne Lukas trainee Orientate won the Breeders Cup Sprint last fall he was given a 0 on Ragozin sheets. Now if Lukas had run Scrimshaw in the Breeders Cup Sprint as two year old he probably would have received about a 15-18 pound weight-for-age allowance. Given that Scrimshaw is carrying about 110 pounds and he runs a 1, he BLOWS THE FIELD AWAY in the Breeders Cup Sprint as a two year old. Sounds logical to me.

But hey what do I know, Robes says he cashed so the numbers must be right.