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08-03-2015, 09:19 PM
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Michael Dickinson to make training comeback
Eccentric?
Slightly.
Nevertheless, he is a fine horseman and trained winners at a high %.
I, for one, will be very glad to see him back. 
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Michael Dickinson, whose training feats include sending out the first five finishers in the Cheltenham Gold Cup and training Da Hoss to win two editions of the Breeders’ Cup Mile, is coming out of retirement to train again at his Tapeta Farm.
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http://thisishorseracing.com/news/in...kPBZyQ.twitter
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08-03-2015, 09:29 PM
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Originally Posted by horses4courses
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Wasn't he the one who made a track, excuse me  , truck load of money selling poly to many tracks?
Nevertheless, glad to see him back. Good luck to him.
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08-03-2015, 09:33 PM
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Originally Posted by EMD4ME
Wasn't he the one who made a track, excuse me , truck load of money selling poly to many tracks?
Nevertheless, glad to see him back. Good luck to him. |
Yes.
Tapeta was his product.
Still is, I'm guessing.
Of all the artificial surfaces, Tapeta seems the safest and most durable.
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08-03-2015, 09:51 PM
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Originally Posted by horses4courses
Yes.
Tapeta was his product.
Still is, I'm guessing.
Of all the artificial surfaces, Tapeta seems the safest and most durable.
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Yep...GGF installed the Tapeta track, have not had a problem with it.
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08-03-2015, 10:33 PM
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NoPoints4ME
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Originally Posted by NorCalGreg
Yep...GGF installed the Tapeta track, have not had a problem with it.
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I miss Bay Meadows....Loved to wager on it and loved the dirt surface 
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08-04-2015, 12:02 AM
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I never knew the guy retired, he only runs one horse a year so i figured i had just missed that one. 
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08-04-2015, 12:12 AM
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Originally Posted by Stillriledup
I never knew the guy retired, he only runs one horse a year so i figured i had just missed that one. |
Hardee har..... 
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Dickinson trained from 1989 to 2007 in the U.S., winning 587 races from 2,538 starts and purses of $20,886,612.
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There aren't too many trainers around who
can win at 25% without the use of steroids, etc.
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08-04-2015, 09:12 AM
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Originally Posted by horses4courses
Hardee har.....
There aren't too many trainers around who
can win at 25% without the use of steroids, etc. |
He didn't ?
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08-04-2015, 09:14 AM
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Originally Posted by KirisClown
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Yep
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08-04-2015, 09:43 AM
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Originally Posted by horses4courses
There aren't too many trainers around who
can win at 25% without the use of steroids, etc.
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I love how people can be so CERTAIN a trainer was not using PERFECTLY LEGAL RACE DAY MEDICATION (at the time anyway)...
Hardee har indeed!
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08-04-2015, 10:06 AM
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In that era, didn't basically all trainers give regular steroid shots, and then say with a straight face that in horses it was "therapeutic", and not "performance enhancing"?
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08-04-2015, 10:18 AM
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Originally Posted by PaceAdvantage
I love how people can be so CERTAIN a trainer was not using PERFECTLY LEGAL RACE DAY MEDICATION (at the time anyway)...
Hardee har indeed!
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I could be wrong....Dickinson appears to be a perfectionist.
We'll see how he does in the months ahead.
Doing a little research, I see you have been on a slippery slope
with this topic before. 10 years ago - well before I joined here.
I don't recognize most of the thread contributors.
http://www.paceadvantage.com/forum/s...ad.php?t=18112
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08-04-2015, 10:29 AM
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I'm just pointing out how interesting I find it when certain trainers are proclaimed to be absolute saints, even going so far as claiming they didn't use certain LEGAL medications...like how would you know? They certainly wouldn't get slapped with a positive, since it was legal!
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08-04-2015, 12:04 PM
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Originally Posted by Robert Fischer
In that era, didn't basically all trainers give regular steroid shots, and then say with a straight face that in horses it was "therapeutic", and not "performance enhancing"?
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Exactly right and Dickinson was no different than any others at that time....... 
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