ALL IS GOOD ON FRIDAY
(Don't forget, you can send in a photo of your horse, big or small, and be in the Bragging Corner on the sidebar for a week or more for any small donation. This little one appears on the Windfields Farm site and is an Ecton Park filly out of Victoria Princess, owned byb George Bigliardi.)
It's a weekend to laugh, love and eat! Oh yes, and take in tons of great racing from New York, Keeneland and Woodbine, where it's nice to see real horses again.
THORO-GRAPH SHEETS PURCHASE PLATE HOPEFUL
Jerry Brown’s Graph Racing Stable, a collection of horses that are purchased using Brown’s own THOROUGH-GRAPH sheet numbers, has purchased Queen’s Plate hopeful (and 3rd favourite) COBRADOR.
Graph Racing manager Roger Neubauer confirmed the colt will be sent to Canada for the Plate. Cobrador races today at Keeneland in the Transylvania Stakes. More updates to come following that race.
WOODBINE TODAY
Sub-zero temperatures and a little bit of snow greets us this morning and day 3 of Woodbine, 2007 is the first of 3 cards this holiday weekend, each with just 9 races.
Today’s feature is race 1 for 3-year-olds which should go to SAFETY ZONE, trained by Mark Casse. The King Cugat colt (okay, does Casse train like 100 of these King Cugat’s??) was only 4 lengths behind Chelokee in his latest at Gulfstream and that one was a troubled 3rd in the Florida Derby last weekend.
Trainers that are busy today include Audre Cappuccitti, Mike DePaulo and Abraham Katryan.
KEENELAND UPDATE
Sam-Son Farms’ worked its stakes horses SHOAL WATER, STRIKE SOFTLY and FRENCH BERET at Keeneland yesterday so that stable will have a good deal of representation at the Kentucky track.
Today, it’s Kentucky-bred filly DYNAMITE EYES, who is so well regarded she was nominated to the Canadian Triple Crown (except she’s not Canadian-bred), makes her debut at Keeneland.
Also, Roger Attfield’s Plate eligibles INCLUDE US and OURTIMETODANCE are in action.
WOODBINE TRACK MAN NOW AT LOUISIANA DOWNS
Brian Jabelmann, who was let go from Woodbine Entertainment earlier this year from his job as director of track surfaces, has signed on to be track superintendent for Harrah’s Louisiana Downs near Shreveport. Jabelmann, who has worked with Fort Erie and Mohawk Raceways brings 30 years of experience to Louisiana Downs, home of the Super Derby.
‘SOMETHIN STINKS’
Thank you to contributors for their comments on the drug positives in standardbred racing. It is interesting to get a feeling of what the general public thinks as well as our local horsepeople.
Just to continue to bore all of us with more Polytrack talk, Jerry Klein has a interesting opinion Polytrack at the bottom of his column on FoxSports today. The entire column in interesting as it also discusses trainer TODD PLETCHER’s quest for his first Kentucky Derby…
http://msn.foxsports.com/horseracing/story/6648646
TOO FUNNY
Thanks to readers TURK and JUDY who sent in this funny picture to me after attending my first handicapping seminar last weekend. In case you missed it, a reader asked if I watched Avril Lavigne on TV the other night and I said no, I watched Jack Bauer and '24'.
posted by Jen Morrison @ 7:02 AM
6 Comments:
At 8:41 AM,
Jen Morrison said…
The editor is taking a beating for my suggesting that tests for Aminorex may be flawed...surely I could have come up with something better than that! Yes, well, I was merely suggesting that because there are some notable horsemen who many in the industry say would never purposefully give their horses such a Class 1 drug perhaps there is something else at work. Some may be giving the drugs to their horses on purpose, some perhaps not.
At 6:39 PM,
Anonymous said…
I would say to you that, these "notable horsemen" who would "never personaly give their horses such a class 1 drug" are ultimately responsible for what goes into their horses.
If a Horse tests postive for a banned drug...why does it matter how it got there?
As a point of reference Olympic athletes watch absolutely everything that goes in their bodies...because if they are caught the "we don't know where it's coming from" defense does not work.
Why is horse racing any different?
Why is it you can't seem to answer as to why you say "some may be flawed...NOT ALL...but many.
I don't get that part. How could some be flawed while others aren't while they all involve the same drugs?
unfortunetly it this Head in the Sand attitude by people that say "these notable trainers would never do such a thing" that bring down the whole credibility of the sport.
The best part is the fact that one day Woodbine says...All horese that test positive are banned....then unbanned....then Wilmot says he regrets unbanning them...
theses guys make Bud Selig look progressive.
At 7:43 PM,
Anonymous said…
Test is designed to detect Aminorex.
Test does exactly what it is designed to do. Detects Aminorex.
yet the test is flawed? I don't buy it.
At 8:20 PM,
Jen Morrison said…
Perhaps not everyone put the aforementioned drug in their horse on purpose. And I have heard of tests not being able to exactly show how or why a substance got in the system, to be that would constitute somewhat of a flaw. But of course, the trainer is ultimately responsible. Enough said.
At 1:36 AM,
Anonymous said…
So much for your happy ending !!
At 8:50 AM,
Anonymous said…
It shouldn't matter...mistake or not.
The test wasn't designed to find out why a drug got into the horses system. Seems to me the test found what it was desinged for...I fail to see a flaw.
If know one knew where this drug comes from in the first place...whay was this test ever designed to begin with?
i still don't see why how it got there is relevent. I find it very hard to believe these "notable' trainers ever put stuff into their horses they aren't absolutely sure about.
Again I ask why does this seem to only matter in Horse Racing? In every other sport, when people are caught doping the "we don't know where it came from" defense does not work.
Betting Handles continue to fall...
Confidence in the game is waining
yet
the heads stay in the sand.
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