Re: Wicked Strong (662 Views)
Posted by:
richiebee (IP Logged)
Date: April 27, 2014 10:44AM
Again, using statistics showing a trainer's shipping strike rate only
partially useful at the Derby.
In most cases, when Jimmy Jerkens ships, he is putting a horse in a van,
sending them to Parx or Monmouth, racing them, putting them back on a van,
and returning to Belmont. We are saying that JJ is 11% under this scenario
and lets make Rocky happy and point out that the odds of all runners in the
sample should be examined.
Sending a horse to another track for in this case 5 days and getting him
acclimated, schooling him, keeping him focused for what will be a very
demanding race, thats different than what used to show up as "Ship/Race
Return" on the invoices from the horse van companies.
The trainer who ships around the country for stakes more frequently and
successfully than any other is the same man man who is what? 1/40 in the
Derby?