you can see the pic now.. i forgot to make it public sorry
As far as names, I was thinking pom poms
Bev and Bob are back in the game? That is awesome. Are they still working with old D. Wayne?
Well, yes and no. Bob Lewis Died last year. And to be honest it's Beverly's checkbook but her children really run the operation now.
they had a winner in a grade 3 at del mar a couple of weeks ago that they bought privately from up north.
Are they traning with D Wayne slaughterhouse still? God no.
I'm pretty sure they go with Richard Mandella.
D wayne lukas has lost alot of clients the last couple of years. a hell of alot. him and bob baffert are two peas in a pot. they are Quarter Horse trainers who converted to training T'Breds. They run horses in the ground.
I can write 5 pages on this submect so I won't, but I will explain.
Baffert trains a 10 thousand dollar claimer the same way he trains a 10 million dollar yearling... literarly.
lol, look at Maimonides. Maimonides was purchased last year for 4.6 million dollars at the same sale I'm at now. In fact I saw his little full sister go though the ring yesterday at 600k. he's a half brother to El Corrodor, who is a grade 1 winner. a half brother to Roman Ruler, who was one of my fav, and admiitingly most overhyped horses of all time.. and is the hottest sire on the planet right now, he got 250 mares this year...
The horse showed promise very early.. he was staitioned out here in socal and I've made the trips to clockers corner in the mornings, as well as at hollywood park to catch him galloping.. god DAMN that's a good looking horse. Moves very fluidly. Very talented
The way you train a horse lik ethat, who glides over the track like that, you don't have to teach him to run fast.. he knows how. you just have ot get the greeness out of him. teach him tod o little things ike run STRAIGHT, keep him happy,keep him healthy, etc.
His workout pattern is a breeze every week at breakneck speed. that's how you train a 20k claimer. that's not how you train a 4.6 million dollar yearling that is oozing talent.
so he ships to New york last month, and makes national headlines by rumping in his first win (which I had... at a very low price but it was a virtual gurantee if there ever was one), won by 11 and a half lenghts.. now I won't get into the handicapping aspects, because I actually wasn't THAT impressed by the race... Sargent Seattle, another 2YO and who I think is the best in the country, won by 6 lengths but did it a second and a half faster. I don't even think Maimonides is the best 2YO horse in his barn. I think J Be K is better.
Anyway back to the point. he doesn't run him in an allowence race, hed oesn't let him go though his conditions... he throws more breakneck works and then goes from a freakin maiden race (horses who have not won a race) to a freakin Grade 1 (the hopeful stakes).. that's like dating rosanne and then dating Natile Portman.
Now, the jump isn't as much a concern as the the workouts. he had the talent to win the race although I had a feeling he wuldn't win.
3 things happened. First, I had Majestic Warrior to win so I made some money.. Bill Mott is the hottest trainer on freakin earth right now, and he has the best AP Indy colt I've ever seen in majestic Warrior.. remember the name.. he's derby bound.
secondly, he was never taught how to RATE (meaning reserve engergy, a a very good example of a "ratable horse" that you might now.. I'll give you two actually.. lava man is very ratable, as well as Street Sense. Street Sense also has what's called "push button speed" meaning he doesn't need to wind up and make a late run, when Calivn Borel asks him for run he's gone. Rags to riches on the other hand, although talented,if she ever gets checked in a race( blocked), she's done. she is so good that she can go wide of everyone and does and as long as she's not blocked, once she gets going, you can forget it. most AP Indy's are like that)
damn i'm getting way off topic. anyway, he got in a speed dull, with himself. Then about half way though the race another good 2YO, ready's image hooke dup with him and at the 6 Furlong mark, they tired themselves out and at 6Furlongs, that's when most AP Indys' finally ralize there is a race going on.
back to my point. about a week after the race, the colt came up with bucked shins... as do most baffert 2YO's who r un his gauntlet program
he's out of the BC Juve a 2 millino dollar race, in about a month because of it.
4.6 million dollars for 2 races.
most race horses run say, a classic distance race in fracitons like 24 seocns for 1/4 a mile, 49 seconds for a half a mile, 1:16 for a 3/rth's a mile, 1:39 for a mile, and 2:08 ish for a mile and a quarter
the kentucky derby was ran in 23, 45, 1:10, 1:33 and 2:02 flat
that's flying. that's what a horse of this calibur is capable of doing, but he can't do it if he's not healhty and can't work out because he's too tired.
it's gottenv ery old, very fast to see Baffert and lukas horses done by the age of 2 after 5 races. Vindication 4 races. What a Song died on the damn track. Officer, 5 races. Air Commander, 3 races.
and don't get me started on lukas. Lukas will do anything to get in front of a camera. If a colt, or hell a filly for that matter, shows any flash of being able to run at all.. he's on the derby traill. regardless if it's in the horses best interest or not. Look at Going Wild 3 years ago. The cotl NEVER won a race outside of Cali. so he ships him to New York to run in the wood against bellamy road and got trounced by like 40 lengths
after that embarssment does he take him home to get some recou? hell no. he's on to the derby baby!!! and got trounced again
and he wasn't done!!1 you know lukas has to hit up all the stops ont he triple crown tour. got embarssed in each and every race and after I think the belmont, was done for the year.
look at flying first class this year, a horse i actually saw in person twice. FAST as FVCK. but he has no business going father than 7furlongs. however under 7 furlongs, I don't think there are many horses in the world that can beat him. and to prove my point he hasn't been beaten once under 7F. no every lost he has, comes from Lukas stretching him out to get a derby horse. he got embarassed by Curlin in the rebel. he then does the senseable thing and puts him in the derby trail, 7 furlongs, right under a mile.. wins going away and I cash...
so you have a grade 1 calibur sprinter right?
NO, BECASUE WIQTH LUKAS IT'S TRIPLE CROWN OR BUST1!!@!!
the freakien preakness and I saw him every freakin day on HRTV the week of the preakness. he gives a hell of an interview.
dead...freakin...last.
and we haven't seen him sense
thanks lukas.
in contrast look at what Bobby Frankel did with Ghostzapper.. who is my fav horse of all time and I think one of the best horses of all time when you look at the times he put togehter. and a horse that was one of the most injury prone hroses to ever see the track.. frankel used every trick in the book to et him to run.
when he win his first race... easily... Frankel knew he had a runner. he ran him in an allowence race.... something came amiss.. gave him baseically teh rest of the year off. missing the triple crown.
came back for his 4YO campaign, never raced with more than a month and a halfs rest..w he he worked he never took it too hard. he raced all of 6 times as a 4YO, all in grade 1's. he won the Breeders cup classic a 5 million dollar race, like he was galloping by himself. and did it breaking a record.
gave him 6 months off and came b ack for his swang sogn int he met mile and just demolished the field.
ah, like i said.. I can go on. I think this is BAffert's last year you will see him in a limelight.. he has the best stable of 2YO's he hasEVER HAD. ever
this is a man who has won 2 derbies. and he has 5 horses right now with derby potential. and if he can't at least make it to the damn race with any of them.. Zayat and others won't be sending him milion dollar babies anymore. everyone else stopped a long time ago
