His owner dumped Manny Azpurua as trainer. I'm very disappointed in that. He picked up Martin Wolfson who is a helluva trainer, but Manny did a great job with this horse. If there was any fairness in the world, Manny would still be the trainer, but then if the world was fair we wouldn't have killed all those innocents in Iraq and Bobby Frankel wouldn't have pulled Laffit Pincay off Megadeath for the Triple Crown in '02.

Sir Oscar supposedly bled last. I guess the owner felt he should of been on Lasix already. How else can you possibly fault Manny's job? Manny is a true gentleman, heres what he said and he said volumes with just a few words:

"The owner is the owner, and he has the final say...Sometimes in this business we know how to win but we don't know how to lose a race."

http://drf.com/news/article/53470.html


TGJB has two crafty selections for the future bet. Though Fire Slams breeding looks somewhat suspect to me, I love the way the horse looks and moves. I thought Holy Bull looked light on stamina for awhile too, despite the similar breeding to Dr. Fager.

I don't really like the route The Cliff's Edge is on, but I'll defer to Zito on that. The Iroquois Win at the track could be significant.

I don't really care if Sir Oscar is a good horse or not now.

CtC



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