Jeff Mullins Interview

[CryingForTheHorses]

Just wondering if anyone saw the Jeff Mullins interview yesterday?. Would love to hear about it. Thanks

[ratpack]

I saw most of it. I can't read the guys mind but he said he wished he had not said some of those things. So what does that mean, did he mean them or not.

He sounded like he had just wished he had never opened his mouth to that reporter.

[rrbauer]

Blood-Horse gives it a tumble:


http://news.bloodhorse.com/viewstory.asp?id=27146

[ElKabong]

I only saw part2 of his interview, it covered milkshakes and how the industry as a whole treats him/ views him. Part 1 covered his quotes on addicts and idiots.....

He seemed to fake a "I'm just a meek, humble trainer simply trying to eek out a living" demeanor. If anyone has ever seen his interviews after wins on the SA, HOL, DMR feeds or on HRTV knows he's an in your face type of guy. That mode got turned off in the tvg interview. B/c of that, I didn't (couldn't) believe a word he said. He was out of his normal charachter.

[frankfig]

Plain and simple. He is full of SHit

[Macdiarmadillo]

FWIW, other things from the interview:

Todd: You just completed 30 days in the detention barn. Explain how
you go from being a 30% win percentage trainer to much less than that in
those 30 days.

Jeff: Well I mean I think anybody will contend that when you take a
horse out of his own stall and move him the day before a race especially
when you -- most trainers will school a horse in the paddock the day
before they run and ugh it starts them thinking and then you take them
back and put them in a different barn and a different stall some horses
worry and um I think its a huge I think it is a disadvantage to be there
but I think I would stay in there the rest of my life if thats what it
took to earn the publics trust.

>>>True with some horses, but if this is true generally, why do trainers ship horses and expect to win? They also ship in from training centers into a racetrack where a horse has never been and win. Maybe it's something about the rattlesnakes they put in the detention barn stalls.


Todd asked Jeff Mullins very specifically if he had ever milkshaked a horse.
Jeff said "not, I mean, not on race day.....". :eek: He went on to talk about
giving alkaline agents to horses within the CHRB guidelines.

>>>Aw, come on McSchell, you've posted the same things that Mullins said in the Simers interview. All that's missing is the attack on Ingrid Fermin. Are you really Jeff Mullins?

[keilan]

Jeff: Well I mean I think anybody will contend that when you take a
horse out of his own stall and move him the day before a race especially
when you -- most trainers will school a horse in the paddock the day
before they run and ugh it starts them thinking and then you take them
back and put them in a different barn and a different stall some horses
worry and um I think its a huge I think it is a disadvantage to be there
but I think I would stay in there the rest of my life if thats what it
took to earn the publics trust.

Christ I wouldn't put my pet rock in this guys care.

[CryingForTheHorses]

FWIW, other things from the interview:

Todd: You just completed 30 days in the detention barn. Explain how
you go from being a 30% win percentage trainer to much less than that in
those 30 days.

Jeff: Well I mean I think anybody will contend that when you take a
horse out of his own stall and move him the day before a race especially
when you -- most trainers will school a horse in the paddock the day
before they run and ugh it starts them thinking and then you take them
back and put them in a different barn and a different stall some horses
worry and um I think its a huge I think it is a disadvantage to be there
but I think I would stay in there the rest of my life if thats what it
took to earn the publics trust.

>>>True with some horses, but if this is true generally, why do trainers ship horses and expect to win? They also ship in from training centers into a racetrack where a horse has never been and win. Maybe it's something about the rattlesnakes they put in the detention barn stalls.


Todd asked Jeff Mullins very specifically if he had ever milkshaked a horse.
Jeff said "not, I mean, not on race day.....". :eek: He went on to talk about
giving alkaline agents to horses within the CHRB guidelines.

>>>Aw, come on McSchell, you've posted the same things that Mullins said in the Simers interview. All that's missing is the attack on Ingrid Fermin. Are you really Jeff Mullins?


No Im not!
Well he admited useing Millshakes "before" But not on race day...Just to let you know..A detention barn is different from a recieving barn.Dont ask me how..BUT The horse knows!

[kenwoodallpromos]

Maybe it's something about the rattlesnakes they put in the detention barn stalls.
Was that Todd? Sounds like some "interviewers" are trying to stir up trouble.
If a change in Mullins' demeanor was noticed, wouldn't the horses in the detention barn percieve the change and become unsettled? I read horses get familiar with people.
When a racer is sold/claimed, does a new groom or trainer make a difference to the horse?

[Valuist]

If milkshake info was made available like Lasix, would anyone have a problem with it?

[keilan]

If milkshake info was made available like Lasix, would anyone have a problem with it?


Anyone that cares about horses might.

[kenwoodallpromos]

Better not to use them at all.