![]() ![]() “All he needed was rest, but heading to a ninth year seemed ambitious.”īred by John R. “We decided to retire him,” Weseloh said earlier this week. Trained by Craig Dollase at the end of his career, Brandothebartender was under consideration for Saturday’s $100,000 California Flag Handicap for statebred turf sprinters at Santa Anita when the injury was detected. 14, 2021) - California-bred Brandothebartender, a $40,000 claim in 2018 who later won four stakes, has been retired from racing because of a recent injury sustained in a workout at Santa Anita.īrandothebartender will be retired to the Old Friends retirement farm in Kentucky, according to Jerry Weseloh of Flawless Racing, which is part of the group that owns the 8-year-old gelding. And if you see a good worker going off long, then you may be the only one that didn't get the message that the horse can't run.ARCADIA, Calif. Then they became a good predictor of who would take a lot of action. They were great until everyone had access to them. So the bottom line is that workout reports have gone the way of speed figures, trainer/jockey combos, pedigree information and other once little known data. Especially when the guys on the racing channels have the same reports and are telling their audience of thousands, all of whom have betting accounts, how great the horse looked in the mornings. Doesn't do much to help that score you have been planning for months. The last thing they want to see in a workout report available for those with a credit card with a $10 limit is how great their unraced 2 or 3 year old worked. Many trainers, and their owners, are degenerate horseplayers. It certainly wasn't fear of losing a good parking spot by the rail at 5:00AM. Either a respected guy like Harrington suddenly lost his vision, or something else was happening.Īlso for years, horseman at the NYRA tracks, or perhaps NYRA itself, fought like crazy to keep private clockers off the grounds. Poor workers were blowing the doors off of good workers. Then, about a year or so ago, it all ended. I've bought the reports once or twice since then on big days, but generally stayed away from betting SoCal entirely because of it.įrom what I heard from a once loyal Harrington follower was that he was lights out for years. Said the Del Mar poly was an entirely different beast after training closed and the sun blazed on it for several hours before post time. Long story short: He gave me a very honest reply stating that since the switch to synthetics (particularly at Del Mar) it was total chaos and randomness as to how those works would stand up to predicting race results. When the SoCal tracks switched to synthetics, I emailed the private clocker whose reports I thought were the most valuable asking him what was up with the bizarre dropoff in the reliability of morning works being replicated in the afternoon. Had good luck with several of these in the early 2000s (particularly helpful with layoffs, FTS, and getting to know the patterns of "betting" trainers). At least one clocker also ranks the works on a subjective A+ down to F grade. For those who aren't familiar-Several of the SoCal private clocker reports give you a whole paragraph of HOW the horse looked and who (if anyone) the horse worked in company with. ![]()
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