Reply With QuoteThat is a great story,
funny thing I have witnessed over and over again how lucky "raffle" horses are, I mean "Only One Slim" and the horses I am remembering were not Miracle Mile winners, but by gee, they've had an incredibly high strike rate in regards to getting to the races and then being useful racehorses, returning $$ and fun to their lucky owners.
I remember a couple in this area that were going really nice, not SUPER horses but nice horses people were having fun with that were more than paying their way, the type of horses you thought " if we get another length's improvement he might be a city horse" which happens with so many it isn't funny, so in trying to get the extra length the horses ( both of them on two separate occasions several years apart) they were moved to more fashionable trainers.
Unfortunately both those horses went backwards a couple of lengths when moved to new trainers, my personal opinion of that is they went from trainers who had worked them through their various stages and knew their little idiosyncracies to someone who did not and therefore that little edge that is gained from intimate knowledge of a horses' individual characteristics was lost, it may have been deeper that that as many times we have seen horses are simply "happy" because they know and trust the people they are working with every day, I remember seeing an interview on "in the Gig" with Shane Tritton a while back and one of his objectives is to " keep them Happy" so there has to be something in that!
Great story terrific little horse, hope it keeps rolling for them.
Cheers,
Dan
