Kentucky Derby: Trainer To Focus More On Their Reputation As The Horses
Outstanding 3 years are not enough in spring this year. Colt higher generation, Eskendereya wounded and some others, enough talent is displayed in the Kentucky Derby even below normal, to win this year.
Nevertheless, Churchill Downs will begin construction of the barrier to fill the Saturday. The rules limit the Derby field to 20 participants, and the sixth consecutive year the race attracted the maximum number. This is a new phenomenon. From 1985 to 2004, no Derby field of 20 horses. The figures reflect the continued popularity of this event, but there are disturbing developments that have contributed to the field of 20 horses. Most trainers have ceased to use common sense and riding, to determine if the horse belongs in Derby.
Ground rules for the preparation of horses have changed little over the decades: the management of horses with patience. Ask them not to do something for which they are inadequately prepared. Do not run away from where they are overcrowded. Even if the Kentucky Derby is concerned, the coaches used to be careful. Charlie Whittingham used the most stable in the West, but it was not a horse in the Derby for 26 years before he won with Ferdinand in 1986. He knew that most 3-years are not ready for such a complex trial. “You must give the horse will tell you when it’s ready” said Whittingham. “Listening to someone and you’re in trouble.”
It is difficult to imagine that the horse, like a kitten, Dean, Paddy O’Prado, Homeboykris and majestic Victor murmured: “I’m ready for the derby!” Their respective instructors in the spring of this year. Deane has Kittens immediately rushed to the mud, losing 34 lengths. O’Prado Paddy runner, won a turf race of his career. Homeboykris not raced since February and has not won in October. Majestic Victor plays in a poor neighborhood on time a synthesis of issues Blue Grass at Keeneland, and he saw 3 0 dirt. Competent management, trainers success of these horses. Why do they do these questionable decisions?
It was a time when owners and trainers who wanted to leave his mark in this sport a lot of alternatives. You could have so much prestige and pleasure of victory in the Jockey Club Gold Cup or for the Santa Anita handicap; they will be Triple Crown events. But as the popularity of sport in general has declined, Triple Crown races are only for the general public to call. Each rich landowner who gets into the game has the same goal: win the Kentucky Derby. Trainers also know that how to use his authority and win more customers for classic 3-years.
Another factor is undoubtedly influenced by the thought of owners and coaches this year: the memory of mine action that bird. Derby winning gelding in 2009, was one of unexplained changes in the history of American horse racing. This is not the result, but Churchill Downs for the next century, but for me, every bird owner and coach hopes underachievers 3 years. If there was the 20 horses this year Derby could have a minimum of 30 participants.
Churchill Downs a limit on the 23-horse Derby chaos in 1974. Its rules give preference, 20 horse’s highest wages in the classified stakes race – the most important events that committee anointed Class I, Class II or III level. The system is not perfect, but it is pretty good. However, it does not affect the soul of owners and trainers in recent years, many. Rather than resolve, you need to run their colt in the Derby, they act as if TOP-20 result qualified him for the race, and to prove its legitimacy. Due to the perverse rule creates a foundation for modern horses that do not belong to the field.
But the reasons for caution going into the Derby are the same as they were at the time of Charlie Whittingham. No race in America is so stressful. Three summers will be invited to run more than ever to escape the larger field, where they never see, under the conditions that face the production inevitably crush – or worse. Racing always takes toll on their candidates.
Last year, after the party was removed, the beginning of a total of 19 horses in the Derby. Of these, 16 have not won the race before the end of this year. Six races were not more than once. Promising colt fell and could not maintain its shape after the Derby business. It is clear that almost all owners and trainers want to experience the excitement of the Kentucky Derby, but it is an experience that often comes at great cost.