National coverage on Monday

[Ron G.]

While many in the industry think Barbaro\'s breakdown is bad for racing overall, it seemed every national cable news and network news carried stories about Barbaro, the injury, the surgery, his recovery, the problems facing a thoroughbred with this injury, stud values, etc. on Monday.  In fact I couldn\'t get away from these stories as they were all over the news no matter what station I changed to, even the business chanels.  Maybe more importantly, all the coverage seemed postive, uplifting stories about everyone involved from the trainer, the rider, the vets and the surgeons.  I can\'t remember seeing horseracing being covered so much in one day on tv.  It may be wishful thinking, but if Barbaro lives, it could be a help to racing overall.

[richiebee]

Good points, Ron.

Well its Tuesday now, and the New York Times, which stopped printing entries for the races a couple of decades ago, had Barbaro coverage on the first page of the Sports section and an ENTIRE PAGE OF HORSE RACING (mostly concerning breakdowns) on the second page of the Sports section.

Maybe NC Tony can tell us what percentage of the 200,000 people at the NASCAR race Saturday were actually hoping to see the greatest pile up of all time.

As a racing fan AND admirer of the breed, I don\'t really care about dissecting the minute points of why Barbaro broke down. I dont want to review his pre race warm up over and over again as if it were the Zapruder film...

I hope this guy makes it. Barbaro seems to be a cooperative patient, unlike Alydar (who suffered awful injuries to his rear leg in a stall accident(?) at Calumet and was his own worst enemy). If he can beat laminitis, maybe we can watch his babies run in 3 years, and tell stories of brittle colts and heroic vets.

[NoCarolinaTony]

Richiebee,

I have  purposely not posted or chimed in to the garbage I have been reading on this board. Your anology of watching the Barbaro Warm up to Zapruder tape is right on. All of a suden all of the handicapers and I\'m sure some racing insiders who read this board are now have skills of Vet\'s etc. Conspiracy theories run rampant on this board. Is it drugs? Track Surface? Lack of Rest? Too much layoff before the Derby...Who know\'s. None of the guys on this board know with certainty. It could have just simply been a bad step.

Greatest Irony of the day was Bernadini\'s performance and the Neg Top 3 Yo Theory. By 1/2 a point (subjective) Bernadini  should have disproved the theory while Barbaro proved out the Neg 1 jump up theory to cataclismic proportions.

The study should be broadened to include all forward movements from previous tops of more than 4 points (maybe it\'s 5 or 6)of all 3 yo\'through June and how any 3 yo reacted to such large forward movements.  Maybe this type of bounce/reaction to forward moves is more widespread and accross all caliber/class  of 3 yo  horses.


as for the Nascar pun. Nobody I know\'s goes to see a Nascar wreck or pileup. We don\'t want to see people hurt or die. Just good Racing. In fact one thing horse racing should learn from Nascar, is how to grow a fan base, how to market the product, how to address safety promptly, and how to keep drugs and alchohol out of the sport. Ohh and they say a prayer before every race for safety....Richie I hear Nascar is coming to Staten Island or would be there if if weren\'t for the Unions. What is this world coming to...Nascar in NYC.

NC Tony

[Chuckles_the_Clown2]

richiebee Wrote:
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>
> As a racing fan AND admirer of the breed, I don\'t
> really care about dissecting the minute points of
> why Barbaro broke down. I dont want to review his
> pre race warm up over and over again as if it were
> the Zapruder film...
>

Actually if the Barbaro Warmup films can reveal as much as the Zapruder film, I\'m all for a frame by frame analysis.

\"What did Prado know and When did he know it?\"

TGJB says 90% of the two boards wagered to beat Barbaro. Don\'t think thats actually the case and don\'t have a dog in this hunt, but if folks want to get to the bottom of why their money evaporated on the 1-2 favorite thats their prerogative.

[miff]

\"Richie I hear Nascar is coming to Staten Island or would be there if if weren\'t for the Unions. What is this world coming to...Nascar in NYC.\"

NC Tony


NY/NC Tony,

I\'m moving out if the rednecks show up in S.I.



Mike

[richiebee]

Miff:

 I emailed NCT and told him that Nascar on SI would be like \"The Dukes of Hazzard\" meet \"The Gang That Couldn\'t Shoot Straight\".

 Guy Molinari who is getting 12K a month to push Nascar will come out the big winner.

 No coincidence that the proposed site is near SI\'s only trailer park!

[trackjohn]

Rich:

  I was born and lived on SI for 38 yrs (moved to LI 11 yrs ago.  You are 100 % correct with Molinari/Nascar.  It would be the final insult to the island (the V-Z bridge being the first!