It cracks me up when I read some comments that say those owners and trainers that had horses beaten by Cole horses would be pissed off that he wasn't suspended straight away. Is that what you on about @Huey?
As if Coles condition affects the performance of his horses!!!
But there are always a few in this industry looking for any edge they can get.
In late December, trainer Butch Reid had a tough decision to make. Should he run his promising now-3-year-old Mailata in the Jerome Stakes Jan. 3 at Aqueduct Racetrack or the Dec. 30 Parx Future Stars Stakes at his home base of Parx Racing?View the full article
Actually, when all's said and done a suspension of a couple of months looks the likely outcome and if that's the penalty imposed i guess Kurtis Pertab got off lightly for cruelty to animals, so Mr Cole does suffer the embarrassment of the situation and also do his owners .
Trainer Bob Baffert has confirmed that GII Los Alamitos Futurity winner Litmus Test (Nyquist) will be scratched from Friday's $1-million GIII Southwest Stakes at Oaklawn Park. Litmus Test was listed at 5-2 on the morning line.
“We're waiting for the San Felipe,” Baffert said via text. “Never intended to run him at Oaklawn.”
The GII San Felipe Stakes will be held at Santa Anita Mar. 7.
Baffert will still be represented by Buetane (Tiz the Law) in the Southwest. He is the 4-1 second choice, but could go off favored since Baffert has proved time and time again that he's very tough to beat when he ships to Oaklawn. He owns a 41-percent winning percentage at Oaklawn and has won 26 graded stakes there. He has won the Southwest six times.
The new morning-line favorite will be D'code (Speightstown), who is listed at 3-1 on the current line. He rocketed to an 8 1/4-length win in his 6 1/2-furlong debut, earning a Beyer figure of 99.
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