Now Mr Fraud, you won't mind me calling you that since we know you are.
I stated the trainer knows more about training horses than I do. I never said the trainer was always right. And clearly they aren't.
Your statement is so stupid. If a trainer (who knows what a horse requires for maximum performance), is putting blinkers on (or any other gear change for that matter), then answer these simple questions.
1) Why doesn't every horse improve from what it has done prior, when racing with the gear change?
1a) Further to 1), why do more horses perform worse following gear changes, than perform better?
2) Why does a trainer make a gear change and then the next week after a poor performance, make another gear change, and then next week after another poor performance, make another gear change. Each week, you are stating he knows what a horse requires for maximum performance. Yet something hasn't been working.
3) Why does a trainer make a gear change where the horse performs terribly, then takes the gear change off and never applies that change again?
Looking forward to your answers Mr Fraud.