Somebody Has To Win
A three horse stakes race at Saratoga. The Lake George Stakes: $130,000 GIII and all three horses were trained by Chad Brown. I can only imagine the instructions to the jockeys and what the owners were thinking in what could have been potentially a merry-go-round race.
Something is very wrong with this picture. According to the Bloodhorse all the other runners scratched. If this can happen at Saratoga, similar races are happening at other tracks. Horses are entered so races are filled and then scratched. At best the trainer may looking for a softer field or it has rained or possibly it is just a straw entry
Folks in Chicago would have seen a sweep of Arlington Park's signature races by Chad Brown winning the Pucker Up, Beverly D, and The Arlington Million.
Chad Brown is a really good trainer and he has a stable full of really good horses. He found three good races.
The number of throughbreds foaled in 2019 is less than half the number foaled in 1990. There are not enough horses and by the looks of things, the really well bred and potentially fast horses are going to Brown, Asmussen, Casse, Pletcher, Cox, Baffert, Mott and several others that seems to win the big and the not so big stake races that pay the bills.
The result has been smaller fields, less betting, and less interest.
It costs as much to train and feed a slow horse as a better horse and the condition books are filled with races with conditions that only a racing secretary or sharp jockey's agent could understand. Or it could be painfully obvious that these owners/trainers need a race they might be able to win.
For example: The 7th at Ajax Downs is carded as:
d) For Three Year Olds and Upward With An Average Speed Index Of 70 And Under.
The probable favorite finished 2nd in his last race and had the fastest speed rating in his last race. He beat three other horses. In 2017 this horse ran at Ruidoso Downs. Tempting Storm, maybe this is your race? Don't blow it. Winner'share: $8,400 Canadian.
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Something is very wrong with this picture. According to the Bloodhorse all the other runners scratched. If this can happen at Saratoga, similar races are happening at other tracks. Horses are entered so races are filled and then scratched. At best the trainer may looking for a softer field or it has rained or possibly it is just a straw entry
Folks in Chicago would have seen a sweep of Arlington Park's signature races by Chad Brown winning the Pucker Up, Beverly D, and The Arlington Million.
Chad Brown is a really good trainer and he has a stable full of really good horses. He found three good races.
The number of throughbreds foaled in 2019 is less than half the number foaled in 1990. There are not enough horses and by the looks of things, the really well bred and potentially fast horses are going to Brown, Asmussen, Casse, Pletcher, Cox, Baffert, Mott and several others that seems to win the big and the not so big stake races that pay the bills.
The result has been smaller fields, less betting, and less interest.
It costs as much to train and feed a slow horse as a better horse and the condition books are filled with races with conditions that only a racing secretary or sharp jockey's agent could understand. Or it could be painfully obvious that these owners/trainers need a race they might be able to win.
For example: The 7th at Ajax Downs is carded as:
d) For Three Year Olds and Upward With An Average Speed Index Of 70 And Under.
The probable favorite finished 2nd in his last race and had the fastest speed rating in his last race. He beat three other horses. In 2017 this horse ran at Ruidoso Downs. Tempting Storm, maybe this is your race? Don't blow it. Winner'share: $8,400 Canadian.
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