| Some horse racing handicapping gurus tell you that all | | | | The rest is history. |
| you have to do is find a jockey trainer combo with a | | | | When you see a jockey and trainer duo that appears |
| high win percentage and that is a strong indication of | | | | to be winning well, ask yourself this, "How are they |
| competence and a good way to find winners. At face | | | | winning and how many horses are they winning on?" |
| value this seems to be true. But what you have to | | | | A few wins with one good horse they happen to |
| understand about horse racing, is that a few good | | | | stumble across doesn't mean that they are really good |
| horses can make a mediocre jockey and trainer look | | | | or will win with today's mounts. The good trainers win |
| very good. | | | | year in and year out with all kinds of horses and stick |
| The truth about training horses is that the best trainers | | | | to a handful of good jockeys that they can trust to not |
| are the ones who don't overdo it and just stick to the | | | | make too many mistakes during a race. |
| minimum. They feed a horse well, keep it in a clean | | | | A good rider knows how to sit chilly and let a horse |
| environment and handle it as little as possible. They | | | | settle in a race after guiding it to a good spot. Like a |
| exercise it well, but not too much. A good race horse | | | | good trainer, they do enough to win and no more. |
| isn't easy to find and when you do find one, you should | | | | Before accepting that a trainer jockey combination is a |
| adopt the same creed that doctors use, "First, do no | | | | good one, make sure they have enough races as a |
| harm." | | | | team to demonstrate that they really are good and not |
| An example of this is Big Brown. He is a good horse | | | | just a flash in the pan. |
| and his trainer (to his credit) had him ready for the triple | | | | To their credit, Rick Dutrow and Kent Desormeaux |
| crown races. Everything was going fine and then, for | | | | have done that and the Belmont was just one mistake, |
| reasons only the trainer can supply, he changed his | | | | in my opinion, that was probably caused by all the |
| workout regimen and electrolytes before the Belmont. | | | | pressure and hype. |