What do you do when your horse doesn't perform well in a big race? You diss the jockey for a bad ride, and you re-start the Winny to put more shimmy in the stud.
Big Brown's controversial trainer Rick Dutrow dissed his jockey -- who won the Kentucky Derby and the Preakness aboard the big bay. Brown's startlingly poor performance would surely not have anything to do with the use of Winstrol (enhancing performance) and the discontinuation of the drug (thus stressing out the endocrine system of the horse).
To the New York Times:
Already planning ahead for Big Brown’s next race, members of his team said Tuesday that they planned to stick with their regular rider, Kent Desormeaux, and resume the colt’s monthly treatments of Winstrol.
Desormeaux’s job seemed to be in jeopardy when Big Brown’s trainer, Rick Dutrow, pinned the Belmont loss on him, claiming on Monday that he had unnecessarily restrained Big Brown in the early part of the Belmont Stakes. Dutrow did not back off his criticism Tuesday and said he would look at changing jockeys.
“If it were up to me, I would seriously consider it,” Dutrow said. “But Kent was never my pick to begin with. That was Mike Iavarone’s move. My pick was always Edgar Prado. Edgar’s my man.”
Thanks for the vote of confidence, Mr. Trainer. Seems like a right honorable thing to say. And the horses owner:
Iavarone, the co-president of the syndicate that owns Big Brown, said Tuesday that no changes would be made before Big Brown’s next race, which will either be the Haskell Invitational at Monmouth on Aug. 3 or the Travers Stakes at Saratoga on Aug. 23.
“As far as I am concerned, there will be no changes,” Iavarone said. “I don’t think anybody was happy with the ride, including Kent. But I’m not going to sit here and say that’s the reason why we couldn’t keep up with those horses. It had to be one element of many. Unless we find something wrong with the horse over the next few days, everything else is speculation.”
Dutrow the trainer changed his mind over the weekend about a few things: juice and his jockey:
On Saturday, Dutrow said he did not have a problem with Desormeaux’s decision to ease Big Brown in the stretch, saying: “It certainly seems that Kent did the right thing in pulling him up. When they turned for home, something wasn’t right.”
Three days later, he had apparently changed his mind.
“You’ll have to ask him why he eased him,” Dutrow said Tuesday. “I would like to know why he pulled him up.”
Let's see how the horse runs after he is back on the steroids program...should be an A-B-A study, although some Vets don't recognize the pharmacology. Dutrow gets it though...
I find the racing industry like all sports is getting more technical by the day. I believe we have lost the "sport" and it now has become come a basically robotic industry!
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