Rene Douglas

[Valuist]

8 races in the books at AP; Douglas has won 7 of them. Not all against Russell Baze-like 5 horse fields either. Not a bad day.

[Suff]

7 wins. Huge day.


any Trainer "tells" in them 7?

[BillW]

He took down 2 of the last 3 yesterday also ... one hell of a run.

Bill

[Valuist]

Talk about going full circle. When I posted this thread originally, he was tearing up Arlington. He won their title again in '04 before heading off to California and winning the 2004 fall Hollywood meet title.

Now it sounds like he may be leaving Southern California. From what I heard, he only went out there in 2004 to sell his house but he got on such a roll, he had to stay.

http://news.bloodhorse.com/viewstory.asp?id=30473

[toetoe]

Funny how the pecking order works. When RD goes back to AP, he supplants Bridgmohan as top dog. When Mark Guidry goes to AP, RD and all others take a back seat.

[Valuist]

Thats true. Bridgmohan was king this year....until Guidry came back. Bridgmohan won the title but if Guidry rode there the whole meet he probably would have. The whole key has been the agent: Dennis Cooper. He handled Guidry's book in the mid 90s, then Garrett Gomez, then Douglas and Bridgmohan this past year.

[toetoe]

So true about the agents. Baze's agent, Ray Harris, is the best. Sure, he has some weight to throw around, and his main man is very good, but his second guys do okay, too. He could make his whole living as a bettor, as could any top-notch agent.

[Overlay]

Speaks well of factoring the ability of the jockey into one's handicapping, and not just treating the rider as a dependent variable on the assumption that "it's the horse that does the running".

By the way, I haven't seen the results of those races. How were the mutuel prices?