Some barns have it figured out when the baby has enough experience to make a run first time out. We have a fellow here from Mexico who takes moderate horses, prepares them well and they run like the wind, BUT he is an exception and not the rule.
Many barns at Woodbine have the knack as well.
Still coming over there with all the noise and chaos of their first race, it takes a superior horse to overcome all that distraction and it is often very hard to make that distinction.
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"If this world is all about winners, what's for the losers?" Jr. Bonner: "Well somebody's got to hold the horses Ace."
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