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Not a shocker here.
Back in the 1980's I was visiting a friend who was attending THE Ohio State University....That's how the most loyal Buckeyes the school referred to as...One night we decided to head on over to Scioto Downs. Now back then the crown jewels of the harness racing world were Meadowlands and the Yonkers/Roosevelt rota. If your horse was good, you raced there. Period.
I was looking at the program. My attention was caught by the breeding on some the horses. Breeding lines I had become accustomed to being entered in some of the most prestigious stake races back in NY and NJ. These horses were entered with $4,000 or lower claiming tags. Or had lifetime marks of 2:03.
I had the occasion to scope out the breeding lines of horses at other tracks such as Pocono Downs and Monticello. I came to the realization that regally bred horses cam a dime a dozen. it seemed to my relatively uneducated eye that for every champion horse there were ten or twenty busts of the same parentage or related to those parents. It was at that point I stopped letting sire and dam influence my handicapping in the least.
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