how fun is this
basket777 Wrote:
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> how fun is this
Curlin is a definite according to Asmussen...First time turf at low odds running against a very strong field...The rubber band might have to come off on this one...
basket777 Wrote:
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> how fun is this
Yes, let\'s see if this week\'s designated Frankel \"bet against\" can outrun his TG numbers and pattern for the 3rd ROTW in a row. Hope they\'re freezing those blood samples.
Want some Frankel historical jibberish?
When I was a kid hanging around Aqueduct in the early 60s, Bobby Frankel was my contemporary and was working backstretch (I could be wrong, but I think he worked for Johnny Campo.)
I used to see him during the races in the paddock with his own buddy, Marty Wygod...they were active if not big bettors. Frankel went his way; Wygod went his, founding Medco Containment Corp, which he eventually sold to Merck for about $2.5 billion.
Wygod is today a big California breeder and races a pretty good stable in SoCal. Although Frankel never trained for him, both have had big success.
There\'s no point to this; just information.
Frankel started out as a hotwalker for Buddy Bellew (sp?). He was quite a gambler, and you can see why because he\'s as good of a handicapper as he is a trainer. There\'s a great story of him going to the track with $40 and hitting the daily double and rolling til he went home with $20,000. Anyway, he went out on his own as a trainer and Buddy Jacobsen took him under his wing. Not sure he ever worked for Campo.
That\'s right...it was Jacobson...probably no one better to learn from at that time. Talk about getting a raw deal...