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@RepoleStable at least they will be going where they are appreciated!
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Hip 172 buyer…you’re welcome lol
So many problems with this entire horse racing ecosystem. Watching these great mares below being bought by Japanese buyers, knowing their future foals may never race in the United States, isn’t just sad. It’s devastating to American breeding and racing!!!!!
For the last 25 years, we’ve watched some of the best mares and female families in the world leave this country. You don’t just weaken the brand. You weaken the breed. And eventually, you DESTROY the breed!!!!! Great mares and strong female families are the FOUNDATION of a great breed. Not breeding the same stallion 300 times a year. That’s not strengthening the breed. That’s weakening it!!!!!
Now throw in a declining foal crop, fewer quality mares, and the same pathetic leadership from the @jockeyclub, Breeders’ Cup, and Keeneland (three organizations that might as well be ONE). And of course, let’s not forget @hisa_us, which the Jockey Club helped create, making it harder and harder for great horsemen to keep horses healthy and get them to the starting gate. We’ve reached the point where the Breeders’ Cup is becoming more about who’s NOT running and who’s getting scratched than who’s actually racing. Seriously, what the hell are we doing?????
I’m also starting to dig into the Kentucky vets and the Kentucky racing regulators responsible for overseeing them. I have a lot of questions, and I’m looking forward to getting some answers.
As Shakespeare might say, SOMETHING IS ROTTEN IN LEXINGTON!!!!!
And your People’s Commissioner, Mike from Queens, is just getting started!!!!!
My legal bills over the last year are now higher than my training bills. 🤦♂️😂
And you know what???
It’s the best money I’ve ever spent fighting for the people of this industry and the future of American horse racing!!!!!
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Jake B. Brown retweeted
Imagine being new to racing, grabbing a program and reading those morning lines. Only to find out those odds, that should serve as a great starting point; are only making a complicated game more difficult to understand.
The fact that individual is paid to come up with that trash is unreal. Been that way for a while now, and at multiple tracks. HRX could, and would do it for free.
Jake B. Brown retweeted
I may cancel my account over this. Don't like it at all.
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Updated Terms and Conditions. NIL rights over its users @TwinSpires @ChurchillDowns
Empressum (2018-2026) the greatest overall racing quarter horse I’ve ever seen.
Not the best race, best year, etc…but the best body of work.
Why his connections insisted on continuing to squeeze the lemon is beyond me. Shameful, and typical both at the same time for @AQHARacing.
Rest in peace. You deserved better.
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Jake B. Brown retweeted
Things you learn in Texas:
1. The guy in the F-150 is worth a lot more than the dude in a Mercedes.
2. The small business owner from a state school is smarter than the majority of Ivy League grads.
3. There’s more racism in Connecticut country clubs than in rural honky-tonks.
4. Rednecks are more honorable than investment bankers.
5. The man who looks like he can’t afford the tab could buy the building.
6. They don’t ask for a deck before the meeting.
7. Prep school is where they send the problem kids.
8. If he’s wearing dusty boots, a 2XL Magellan shirt, a gold Rolex, and has a bulletproof case on his iPhone 12, you’ve already lost the negotiation.
9. “How’s business?” is a real question. “What do you do?” is a New York question.
10. Tips are bigger and egos are smaller.
11. A handshake still closes deals that a term sheet would kill.
12. The wealth is in real estate, oil, or a company nobody in Manhattan has ever heard of.
13. Your wife or daughter will never struggle finding help to change a tire.
14. Nobody asks where you went to college.
15. A weekend invitation to their ranch makes you part of the family.
Jake B. Brown retweeted
Not to give @TVG or @FanduelTV all the credit, but the absence of quality production is a major reason for those tracks being in the red YOY. They all previously had full production when on our network. They now have elevator music promoting their product, that’s why @parxracing was down 17% as well. @ChurchillDowns was in the green as we gave full coverage. We have the distribution that is needed to put racing in front of eyeballs, something that has taken years to generate, however that doesn’t matter without some sort of production value. Running races with a Spotify play list will not help the sport as it becomes unwatchable to most novice players.
Kind of disappointing to see handle down w/ the opening of the new @BelmontPark1905--especially since purses and field size were up. Yes, handle per race was up but other than @ChurchillDowns seems like money just shifted back to @TheNYRA from places @parxracing & @losalracing
Jake B. Brown retweeted
🚨 BREAKING NEWS 🚨
The @jockeyclub has issued a statement declaring it has absolutely no affiliation with @keenelandsales.
Jockey Club Chairman Everett Dobson, Vice Chairman Bill Farish and Secretary Bill Lear confirmed there is no relationship whatsoever.
Keeneland trustees Everett Dobson, Bill Farish and Bill Lear fully agreed with Everett Dobson, Bill Farish and Bill Lear.
In the spirit of total transparency: absolutely no relationship. No affiliation. And, of course, no conflicts of interest. 😜
😂😂🤣
As my team and I prepare for the Keeneland September Sale, I have two major concerns.
First, after studying these books for more than 15 years, I hope the physicals look better than the pedigrees.
Outside of a few elite proven stallions and first-year and second-year sires, Books 1 and 2 are extremely top-heavy. For two decades, America has sold many of its greatest Grade 1 and Breeders’ Cup mares to Japan. Their daughters now have daughters, and Japan’s pedigrees keep getting stronger.
Meanwhile, we have weakened our foundation. We have weakened our female families. We have weakened the American broodmare band, and we have hurt the breed.
Big numbers at the top don’t mean the overall breed is healthy. I am not impressed with the quality or diversity of this catalog.
My second concern is transparency.
Last year, Hip 5, an Uncle Mo filly and full sister to Seismic Beauty, was reported sold for $900,000 after I stopped bidding around $800,000. The ticket was signed by an agent.
Thirty minutes later, the consignor offered me the horse for $800,000. I offered $500,000. They declined, then called back and accepted.
I own the horse. I paid $500,000. Yet one year later, Keeneland still publicly reports a $900,000 sale, even though Keeneland invoiced me for $500,000.
Who was the original buyer??? Who authorized that bid??? Why did the transaction collapse immediately??? Was someone trying to push me to $950,000??? How many other reported prices differ from what was actually paid???
The agent who signed the ticket must be held accountable and explain exactly what happened.
But the ultimate responsibility sits with Keeneland’s president, senior management and trustees. They knew about this. I was crystal clear that I wanted this changed ASAP.
They refused to correct the public record.
And let’s be honest: Keeneland is the @jockeyclub. Same leaders. Same bullshit.
Three leading Jockey Club stewards, Everett Dobson, Bill Lear and Bill Farish, are also Keeneland trustees. They constantly preach transparency. It’s time to practice it.
I have spent between $10 million and $20 million at this sale annually for each of the past 10 years. Buyers are investing serious money and putting their trust in Keeneland.
I am demanding a full investigation, a public explanation and a corrected record.
We deserve answers. Every buyer deserves transparency.
What happened @keenelandsales???
Does anyone know what happened???
Entitled to final say in all matters.
HISA CEO Lisa Lazarus accuses Churchill Downs of making “inaccurate and misleading” claims about the authority’s handling of recent controversies.
More: paulickreport.com/news/ray-s…
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Jake B. Brown retweeted
Your success with low priced purchases does not get enough mention. Incredible. I remember this guy well. I had a future book bet on him from Feb 1995. He ran too good to lose.
Jake B. Brown retweeted
It’s Labor Day, and for a large Majority of my life that meant one thing, the All American Futurity at @RuidosoDowns. It saddens me that is now a thing of the past. The memories will last a lifetime, glad I got one time to share it with my kids.
