Originally Posted by
daoilman
Which makes the results even more absurd, you're much to good of a handicapper to side with the defense. What we saw yesterday was straight out of the Gasper Moschera playbook, do you remember that crew Mike? Moschera, Barrera, Ferriola, Dutrow, Odintz, you remember those crooks? The guys who regularly made graded winners out of cheap claiming stock, the guys who were infamous for form reversals.
I can remember way back in the late 80's, there was a Ferriola runner by the name of Fugie, a cheap claiming sprinter who set a NYRA track record one afternoon, I can remember because the race caller, Durkin I believe, left his mic on a little to long after the race when in astonishment he openly commented "talk about Elephant juice".
Now I'm not saying that Mott uses juice, not at all, I doubt that he does anything illegal with regards towards therapy or medications, what I am saying is that I think he instructed Lezcano to take a dive verses Dreaming Of Julia in the GP Oaks in anticipation of the Keenland race yesterday, in effect the GP Oaks was a public workout. Therein lies the problem in horse racing, while trying to attract new players they drive folks off with blatant thievery, even at the highest levels, no trainer, no matter how respected for his work is above manipulation at the expense of the betting public.