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Post by kassracing on Jan 18, 2008 11:23:46 GMT -5
Tonights 13th Race. Goldies Girl. One of the better 3z mares at the track. Was awful last week, didn't leave. Pulled going to the half. Went back in. Horse that one was flat or wouldn't pass her next start. Gets claimed from John G. Wengerd to the Cox stable, with multiple claims. Merriman stays on. Horse pace out of its skin, races well, or goes backwards? Any comments?
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Post by therealmuljuice on Jan 18, 2008 17:21:26 GMT -5
She goes to a better trainer, so I might expect better results. But looking back at the last race, suppose Aaron knew that Cox was going to claim Goldie... he might have resisted gutting her, knowing that he would be back at the reins tonight... although he still would have had to survive the multiple claims process.
Both Jeff and Scott Cox are good trainers, from my experience.
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Post by BlackWater on Jan 18, 2008 18:10:49 GMT -5
I have Goldie on top tonight, a neck in front of Livinintheleftlane. I threw out her last race as a "bad mane night" LOL! We'll see!
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Post by kassracing on Jan 19, 2008 12:45:09 GMT -5
It's funny. I was buying her on a race out from the old owner. She was mine after the race when she got claimed. But I also knew she would be claimed. Cox hates her. But she is one of the best 3's on the ground. Shes a terrible horse to be around. And pretty much whomever has her dislikes her. She is the stereotypical rotten !@$%^#. lol
Funny, people perceive trainers to be bad or good purely by results. Which is definitely not a true representations of ones training ability. Funny thing though, over the past 5 years John had more wins with her, then i think with all of his other pacers combined! lol
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Post by trackrat on Jan 19, 2008 13:40:06 GMT -5
Funny, people perceive trainers to be bad or good purely by results. Which is definitely not a true representations of ones training ability. Often, the betting public has no other method to gauge a trainer, except for his/her results on the race track. Having said that, the betting public does not see what the raw product looks like when it arrives in the new trainer's stable, how tempermental it might be or how sore/disabled it was when it got there. A trainer might be judged differently by his peers or other horse people who see the kind of reclamation work some trainers do, totally rehabilitating some horses. On the flip side of that, how many horses did Belcher (and others) disable by masking their pain with chemicals? Part of the problem with harness racing's image is that it is not transparent. |
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