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I was on the NAPP Committe with Mark and always liked him and definitely respected his theories and opinions-and was shocked when he packed it in the 1st time when he suddenly went off to Cornwall, I think whilst the Ebor meeting was on, in a attempt to recapture his form of old.
I was delighted when he returned with Raceform on Saturday and was disappointed when it disappeared.
Quote: from apracing on 3:17 pm on Mar. 2, 2006[br]<br>I must be missing something, but $16M for a dirt bred horse that has shown he can run fast on that surface and they are sending him to Biancone.
<br>Biancone is based in Saratoga for the Spring, Summer and a large part of the Autumn.
He used to winter in California but this winter he definitely has horses-and may be completely based- at Turfway Park in Kentucky-which is the 1st track to use polytrack as a racing surface.
Biancone’s in the equaton-but I’d fancy that Pletcher might get the colt instead of Biancone and he’s based in Florida in the winters.
Doesn’t he train in California and aren’t they replacing their dirt tracks with Polytrack?
And with the same thing happening in Kentucky, are sires with a dirt track background going to command big fees in the years ahead?
AP<br>
(Edited by pengamon at 3:41 pm on Mar. 2, 2006)
http://fasigtipton.sitespace.com/
I believe this is where the workouts can be found.
(Edited by pengamon at 2:13 pm on Mar. 2, 2006)
I think you can view the furlong work on the Fasig-Tipton website. He was lot 153 at the sale. He apparently wowed everyone there not with the 9 4/5 time but because he apparently did it so effortlessly.
I was actually thinking that in £ terms this may actually less than the amount paid for Seattle Dancer back in the mid 80s-even without inflation etc being factored in- as the £ was pretty much at its weakest ever level around 1985 and is obviously much much stronger now against the $.
Quote: from apracing on 2:33 pm on Mar. 1, 2006[br]<br>A furlong in 9.8 seconds!
Does anybody actually believe any thoroughred could do that, let alone an immature 2-y-old?
AP <br>
<br>I’ve seen a lot of horses go 1/4 mile under 20.5 at the April pre-sale workouts before the Keeneland sale and have seen a few go so 20 seconds for 1/4 and under 10 for a furlong.
Don’t know who’s the worse for wear. Him or me after the flights to and from LA.
He had a minor operation yesterday and is fine now. At least he’s totally recovered from the feet/ankle problems that were building up before he left Britain.
30-1 No-one likes him! Sitting in Arcadia Library hoping for the best in 3 hours time :)
My criterion for the best jockey in the world is someone who is winning Graded races, often, all over the world and winning them for different trainers.
Kinane’s a one trick pony. All bar 1 of his 2001/2 Group/Grade 1 successes were for O’Brien.
In ’02 just look at the different number of trainers Mike Smith rode Graded winners for and how many different trainers provided Bailey with his 60+ stakes winners last year.
Kinane is dropping out of my list of the worlds best.
Laffit Pincay Jr. 56 years old. Just passed 9500 career wins. Rides in the toughest jockey colony in the world-South California-already has 44 wins this year.
Baze is 1400 winners behind him and is 12-13 years younger. Pincay will pass the 10,000 winner mark. Baze could well ride 3500-4000 winners in the next 10 years and set a mark that will possibly never be matched- but he has very limited competition up in Northern California.
I’d add Mike Smith to the list as well. He has by far the best strike rate in Breeders’ Cup races-just about 20%.
I’m trying to piece together how he got from California to Kentucky and will be talking to the lady, from rerun, later today and will pass on best wishes to John Ferneley from people on this forum.
The amazing thing is that no-one there realized that he was such a well known horse over here.
I’ve just done research and he was sold for 35,000 Guineas at the Tattersalls 2001 July Sale to J.R. Racing Ltd.
After that the trail runs cold but i’ve passed all this info onto rerun. They knew nothing whatsoever about his great career here….
Mike Smith and John Velazquez are my 2 favourite North American riders and they both had great days on Saturday-winning half of the Breeders’ Cup races between them.
But I thought that Johhnie gave Dansili a dire ride in the 2000 BC Mile.
Adrian Ive often heard and read that its harder to ship a horse from west to east than from east to west. Ive never seen any explanation for this and was wondering if it’s true?-or just American propaganda?!?
Actually Lindley is awful. Classics from Lindley include one day at Goodwood "lester’s horse is doing the pasto doble" And something he will never mispronounce again.<br>The Cork and OYEYYEZ! doubt even he will mispronounce the new title of the race.
Is Statto-people’s favourite presenter, basically inoffensive or just a nobody!
