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Originally Posted by cj
Many horses were entered in the last 5 or 6 races without the connections having any intention of actual showing up in the gate. Favors, bribes, whatever, you be the judge, but the whole things smells. This isn't news, it was so obvious the first few times anybody could see what was happening if they wanted to see it.
Our sport is so desperate for attention it ignores the shady stuff, right or wrong.
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Stuff goes on sometimes, and I would hardly be surprised if a few calls have been made re: RR, but I think there's also a significant amount of unfounded speculation. What goes on between Cole and Davis is not necessarily indicative of the reasons behind other withdrawals.
RR is an absolute frontrunning menace at the 5k starter level. He has the stamina to win going away at 9f but he has legit frontrunning sprint speed, too; he was leading or within a head/neck after 2f in his last 14 sprint races. So there shouldn't be any surprise when he gets the lead consistently in route races, and there shouldn't be any surprise when connections of other horses often decide to wait for another spot after the entries are published and they see RR on the list. He's almost like an automatic 60% purse cut.
Any winning streak in horse racing has some sort of manufacturing/management to it.
