This weeks ROTW Man-O-War

[basket777]

how fun is this

[Lost Cause]

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...

[Rick B.]

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.

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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.

[Ohlo]

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.

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That\'s right...it was Jacobson...probably no one better to learn from at that time.  Talk about getting a raw deal...