Is Justify lame??

[FrankD.]

https://www.paulickreport.com/news/triple-crown/commission-vet-no-evidence-of-scratches-on-justify-tuesday-colt-recovering-from-bruise/

[johnnym]

So it went from hoof rash to a bruise
Bottom line is he is not lame.
Now if he doesn’t get into the starting gate I will change my tone.
Moving on

[T Severini]

This is a valid post......thanx Frank D, always appreciate your input.

Johnny, not gonna dissuade you from sending it in at likely 2-5 or worse, but really?...really?

He bruised in the SA Derby then as well. Per some eyes. (God this is difficult)

He could run through it. It could be something tolerable, after all he won the Kentucky Derby with it, though not on 2 weeks  rest.

Why don\'t we view his Preakness gallops. what do you say?

[ajkreider]

Justify will be the huge favorite, so the smart money is probably to pass. But with the thing with the foot now seeming to be a bruised hoof...  

Quip will get some action, but I think Bravazo has a chance.  If you draw a line through his last prep - where he fought the jock for no apparent reason - he has an improving line ending in something around a 1 or so (maybe a bit better).  He couldn\'t get the 10F, but he got to the 16th pole just fine.  The Derby was his first real race since February, so maybe he needed one.

And he will be a price.

[JR]

There aren’t too many horse trainers I’d trust to tell the truth and Baffert isn’t one of them.

[johnnym]

As I said if he doesn’t make it to the gate I will stand corrected would not be the first nor the last time I’m sure.

[johnnym]

Back on the track

https://mobile.twitter.com/BH_AHughes/status/994541497663082497/video/1

[T Severini]

Looky dere!  He\'s a machine!

Dang, lets get \"in\" before the world realizes he\'s good to go! If we can key this horse on top, we can score the exotics and takes all da monies from da sheets playas!

If we can get 2-5 its stealin baby! We mega cappers that can skim offena sure thing are so smartenly!

[T Severini]

Sincere Apologies

Though favoring the left rear, that horse is not Justify. Misled by the narrator.

The horse is wearing Blinkers and there is no nose blaze.

Thus Justify\'s bruised heel, until determined otherwise, is restricted to the Kentucky Derby.


 T Severini Wrote:
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> Advance this youtube to about the 7:50 mark, (Post
> Santa Anita Derby) and watch the animal\'s rear
> left. What do you think?
>
> Santa Anita Derby Walk to Winners Circle

[johnnym]

I have no idea what that message means.
IMO their was a very quick rush of judgement bringing unnecessary Drama to this forum that doesn’t need to be.
“Housewives of TG”

Gambling aside, Is it so hard to just appreciate a horse that is re writing the history books?

[Chas04]

With Bolt Running do you give him another shot? Loved him and he looked like he got shot at one point.

[Tavasco]

Thank you for clearing that up. No problem, as it has been recently revealed that Fake new is not counterfeit but rather words one does not understand or fancy.

I remain gullible.

[P-Dub]

T Severini Wrote:
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> Looky dere!  He\'s a machine!
>
> Dang, lets get \"in\" before the world realizes he\'s
> good to go! If we can key this horse on top, we
> can score the exotics and takes all da monies from
> da sheets playas!
>
> If we can get 2-5 its stealin baby! We mega
> cappers that can skim offena sure thing are so
> smartenly!


Hey Chuck, can you put this type of stuff somewhere else?

Maybe a Blog, Twitter, whatever.

I know you love to hear yourself write, but this is truly awful....even for you.

[Fairmount1]

Chuckles,

Christian announced a youtube channel today via Twitter.  Time for a \"new voice on the interwebs\" he wrote.  Maybe you could be the first clown on his show.  I think you would fit right in with his \"depth, truth, perspective, and edge\" over there.

[rhagood]

And now back to our regularly scheduled programming..... several observations on the whole sorted lame affair.

Baffert is historically known for not arriving to the barn at the crack of dawn.
As the post race presser wrapped up a few journalists came up and asked what time they should show up on Sunday, 8 am was the response.  Most likely he gave instructions to not take the horse out until he arrived. He gets there just before and takes the horse out of his stall for the first time, gives him a few circuits inside the barn then steps outside to show him off.

Let me regress back to a similar Sunday morning in 1987, the setting - Monmouth Park backstretch barn number 1. I was a young groom of the first Crafty Prospector 2yr old run and trained by her breeder that had just broken her maiden at 4 to 1 first asking the day before.  Full of joy and cash (what is the statue of limitations on red boarding?) I was out on the town with our exercise rider until early morning.  Seeing that Sunday was normally a walk the shredrow day for our barn we hoped to arrive before the trainer showed up.  Lo and behold when we pulled up, they had the filly already out of the stall bandages off and jogging on the concrete to see how she came out of the race.  In our case fine and luckily the tardiness was overlooked.

So Baffert was more than embarrassed, caught unawares and scrambling for the right words for which there were none except scratches?

One trick of the trade that our exercise rider learned (a former one-eyed jocky from Belize I kid you not and a top-notch horseman) was to cut a circular section of a beer can and place it over a pad on a horses\' heel before applying the rundown bandages.  He used it on those prone to running down (burning heels) even through the standard gauze wrap or for off tracks which often burned through like a warm knife cutting butter. He just said never tell the trainer who wouldn\'t approve of such gypsy methods but it worked like a charm.  A suggested change of equipment for Justify:  \"beer cans on\", even a 5 time Derby winning trainer can improve his craft!

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