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03-06-2022, 01:23 PM
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Prat heading to Ny
https://t.co/Q1f4Krhv4E
Imo the best rider in the country will take his business to New York.
Another blow to Cali racing
Last edited by Brisk Urging; 03-06-2022 at 01:24 PM.
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03-06-2022, 03:05 PM
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Might actually make the track more playable, he was too good for that colony.
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03-06-2022, 04:14 PM
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The Voice of Reason!
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Hmmmm, guy leaves one track for another and both tracks get better.
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03-06-2022, 04:23 PM
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With his experience in riding 5-horse allowance races, he'll fit right in!
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03-06-2022, 05:49 PM
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03-06-2022, 06:00 PM
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Quote:
Originally Posted by Al Gobbi
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Guess JRV going to win all the races now. 
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03-06-2022, 06:20 PM
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I don't understand this move by Prat or Rispoli, but especially for Prat.
He was cleaning up in California and now moves to join the toughest riding colony in America to knock heads with Rosario, Saez, the Ortiz brother & others.
He should ride live ones for Brown and Pletcher, but it's going to be tough.
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03-06-2022, 06:51 PM
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i have a terrible memory and zero inclination, but didn't Prat ride Saratoga in recent years?
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03-06-2022, 07:58 PM
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These guys probably sense a decline in Cali racing and don't want to get left behind.
NY and KY are the capital of American racing. You can make a very nice living elsewhere beating up lesser competition. The best typically gravitate to where the action is. Prat and Rispoli will return west for the winter months probably. Assuming there's something worth returning to. Otherwise, GP is fine in January.
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03-06-2022, 08:57 PM
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Quote:
Originally Posted by Bustin Stones
These guys probably sense a decline in Cali racing and don't want to get left behind.
NY and KY are the capital of American racing. You can make a very nice living elsewhere beating up lesser competition. The best typically gravitate to where the action is. Prat and Rispoli will return west for the winter months probably. Assuming there's something worth returning to. Otherwise, GP is fine in January.
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You cant win the eclipse for being the best rider in socal so if you want to achieve that, which he said he does, he has to move. He also isnt that young so the time is now.
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03-06-2022, 09:57 PM
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Quote:
Originally Posted by PhantomOnTour
I don't understand this move by Prat or Rispoli, but especially for Prat.
He was cleaning up in California and now moves to join the toughest riding colony in America to knock heads with Rosario, Saez, the Ortiz brother & others.
He should ride live ones for Brown and Pletcher, but it's going to be tough.
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Rafael Bejarano, Joe Talamo are a couple of examples of those who decided to ride in California after successfully riding at the middle level in the east only to become near the top in California. They paid the price for riding fewer races and not much competition racing in small fields. Drayden van Dyke is another who started off great but has flamed out. Look at the jockey colony at Oaklawn who rode in the SoCal circuit and left and it will show that spending your career riding in California is a cancer to your career if you are young!
Flavien finally decided that if you want to be considered the best you have to compete with the best. Rispoli also woke up and realized that he was starting to flame out after a fast start in California. Will they succeed in NY, I am not sure.
At least they won't be flaming out like Talamo and Bejarano who started out riding on the east coast and had great starts to their California career only to stay in California and not realize how their careers of So Cal greatness were fading out and now they end up spending their winters at Turfway instead of being with the pretty people of California. Wake up Drayden!
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03-06-2022, 11:06 PM
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Quote:
Originally Posted by molson721
Wake up Drayden!
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He rode in Kentucky during the spring last year.
Even hit the board a couple of times at Keeneland...
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03-07-2022, 12:47 AM
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Quote:
Originally Posted by Spalding No!
He rode in Kentucky during the spring last year.
Even hit the board a couple of times at Keeneland...
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It was a cameo appearance.....not necessarily by choice.
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03-09-2022, 02:22 PM
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When Rosario was riding in Ca he was completely dominant.
IMO had he not chosen to move East he would never have taken his career to the next level.
Can only imagine Prat hope to follow the same course.
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03-09-2022, 03:53 PM
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Quote:
Originally Posted by v j stauffer
IMO had he not chosen to move East he would never have taken his career to the next level.
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When you say move east are you including OP, CD, KEE, and maybe even FG in that or just BEL/SAR. IMO, there's a shift going on in high level dirt racing towards guys like Cox, Asmussen and others where NY is not really the home base. And Baffert (pending what happens in the next few months) totally dominates dirt racing out west. NY is kind of slowly becoming the turf capital of the US.
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