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Originally Posted by dilanesp
You're right. Indeed, most technically, trainers are supposed to be trying to win too.
In reality, of course, nobody ever enforces this except in the case of obvious stiff jobs, and I am not sure you really could.
Interestingly, I would actually guess that this was MORE of a problem in the past, when horses were "raced into condition". In that era, trainers often entered horses to "give them a race" and instructed jockeys not to make the horse exert too much. Nowadays, a lot more trainers use workouts instead.
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That’s an interesting (guess) comment. If that scenario only pertains to something done in the past then why do people in the handicapping world continue to refer to the better betting possibilities as those where entries are coming into a race 2nd or 3rd time off a layoff?
