Maker/Dark Cove/TG figures

[sekrah]

Badride1 Wrote:
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> I think Ass really went down hill when all the
> poly tracks were implemented.  His horses just do
> not run over it anywhere, ever.   I think that has
> as much to do with his % being down as anything
> else.



BWAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA..  This is great.  I\'m in stitches.

[TGJB]

You\'re right, you don\'t understand what I mean.

But you do know what a vet is, and if you\'re spending time at Maker\'s barn you know who his vet is.

[plasticman]

There\'s so many good tidbits here, i\'ll try and sum it all up, Dan Patrick style. What have we learned today Seton?

1) Jerry Brown is now Mr Brown, i suggest you guys start addressing him properly.

2) Mike Maker works hard.

3) Thorograph numbers are now called \"voodoo numbers\"

4) Mike Maker is a nice guy.

5) Many trainers just stand by the rail, drinking coffee, while not even watching.

6) Oj Simpson might be innocent.

7) Ken McPeek is clueless.

You can\'t get a degree in Chemistry by selling \'sheets\'

9) Mike Maker would win 45% if the testing was better

10) Mike Maker doesnt use Pixie Dust.

11) If you don\'t want to give bold and talkative posters amnesia, please refrain from asking which vet Mike Maker currently uses.

[richiebee]

... you forgot 12, the nice old lady in the wheelchair...

[FrankD.]

What a cluster $#%^&* of a string about nothing!!!!
For Christ sake its DERBY WEEK and this is one of the few places in the world where some people actually turn a profit betting on horses day to day for years.

Gimme a FREAKIN BREAK ALREADY.

Hay and Oats for all!!!

Frank D.

[jma11473]

Badride1 Wrote:
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> You aren\'t comparing apples to apples.   Id liken
> it more to taking Dekimbe Mutumbo out of the congo
> and onto the court.   Hes going to live in a hut
> and make 2 dollars a year in the congo, potential
> never realized.   Hes 7 foot tall, you bring him
> here, hook him up with some people who can coach
> and he becomes a prolific NBA shot blocker.  Dark
> Cove was always well meant, the talent was always
> there.  Shame the previous owners had to watch it
> develop
>
> For the record Mcpeek did a good job with
> Darkcove.   He broke one off in Mike initially,
> but thats the luxury of having a guy like Ramsey,
> he was given ample time to get the horse right.
> If you claimed him you would have been running
> back for 10k and hoping to get out.  Thats how
> good horses become starter eligible, money had a
> big advantage.


How is you saying McPeek is terrible and Maker a genius, and my giving facts showing the opposite was true two years ago not comparing apples to apples? You just dodged everything I posted because you have no explanation for it. It\'s not about just one horse---it\'s about a pattern where Maker couldn\'t make horses improve in incredible ways and now he suddenly can. So the \"lifetime horseman\" thing doesn\'t wash---wasn\'t he a \"lifetime\" horseman before?

[richiebee]

Dark Cove is nominated for the Dixie Stakes on Preakness Day, 9 furlongs on the
grass. Anyone know if he is running?

[TGJB]

Covello plans to win that race, he might know.

[covelj70]

hah, in this case, I am not worried about the competition.

Wise Dan, Little Mike and Point of Entry aren\'t nominated and as far as I am concerned, those are the only three that Warrior can\'t beat if he\'s doing well and he gets the right trip.

He breezed absolutely awesome this morning but we still have to make sure everything is good with him for the rest of the week or we won\'t run him.  

If he\'s in the gate on Saturday, you can all bet him with confidence but this horse is so quirky that he\'s never more than 50/50 to make the race even after entries are taken.  He can breeze like Secretariat one day and then you come in the next morning and you wouldn\'t play him in a 35k claimer!

[vp612]

You scratched him at churchill and he looked good to me and I was going to use him with wise dan.

[richiebee]

Good luck Jim.

While POE was not nominated, Shug did nominate two decent runners from his \"second
string\", Boisterous and Data Link.

As I stated previously, I am looking for fast/firm, full fields and a little more
chaos on the undercard than we had on Derby Day.

[bstaubs22]

Sounds like Shug is sending Imaging out in the Dixie. Would assume Data Link will  be pointed elsewhere.
http://www.drf.com/news/belmont-park-point-entry-works-toward-manhattan