A Change in The Wind

[big49010]

Originally Posted by trotman

To Dorianmode and others IMO it's the horse that runs the race. Trainer stats, jockey stats, trainer jockey stats are just identical to the PP's, they are the past. These items IMO are deciding factors to which horse you put your money on. I pay no attention to them, only to the horse. Horse racing is starting to look like a hockey or NFL fantasy pool with all these secondary stats. What irks me is so many people have a position on who is right and who is wrong yet the majority follow the blind sheep. For those you look up to as handicappers or who you followed you need to go back and re-read it all because IMO your way off base.

If what you say is true, why hasn't Jack VanBerg and Wayne Lukas the two trainers that taught many of the best trainers out there today, been successful with Multi-Million dollar stock in the last 10 year? Based on what you are saying, add Nick to this group. Training has changed, and these guys haven't changed with the times, so if you treat them like the power houses they used to be, you heading for disaster.

On the flip side, if you get on the bandwagon with a Rudy Rodriguez or Chad Brown before they get in the mainstream, you can find overlays on horses that move up in figures outside of the public eye.