very expensive babies this Saturday at Meadowlands

[PurpleSheetPicks]

you hear about the great ones, never the useless ones, I would love to see how much the owners have lost after all bills on Oneeighthundred

What's the obsession with 1800 and his price?
Pick one of the dozen today that avg about 300k. That 3.6 million paid for alot of 15 claimers

[PurpleSheetPicks]

If you play the big money baby game
1. Ake
2. Per
3 Ronnie
4. Linda
5. Nifty

If you are giving mellander a horse over any of these connections you are nuts and will go broke buying up the bs

[PurpleSheetPicks]

One last thought before this downfall fully plays out...
First off, they will Blame greenshoe, secondly
They will rape owners plain and simple..they took about 10 high priced father Patrick's after they swore no more fp"s on the barn.
But hey if your going to pay them,  then sure, they love the horse

[PurpleSheetPicks]

Alagna has no starters in na cup

Wow

[macdaddi]

if the pattern stays alot of them will be racing there first couple of racesd at pocono to test them out both ake and marcus did that with several 3 yr old this year

[augustaandy]

Linda is the best value, doesn't get the massively high priced one's and does a great job

[Parked]

Alagna has no starters in na cup

Wow

Alagna   How about the leading money winning trainer not having a horse on the NA card ??

[PurpleSheetPicks]

Alagna   How about the leading money winning trainer not having a horse on the NA card ??

Has he had a winner since Ramona hill?? Seriously

[Harness racer]

Alagna   How about the leading money winning trainer not having a horse on the NA card ??

I always look at earnings per start/ not earnings by stacking 100 horses at every track.  And say what you want, but Melander's per start average is very high.  But yes, I understand that doesn't calculate the ones that never make the track.

[PurpleSheetPicks]

I always look at earnings per start/ not earnings by stacking 100 horses at every track.  And say what you want, but Melander's per start average is very high.  But yes, I understand that doesn't calculate the ones that never make the track.

If you want to do money per start factor in his 80 qualifiers.
And whatever it is now, I'll take under from here.

He picked off a couple Nyss early . Bit when you are 400k in you need horses like bond or jiggy jog. Not 53 trotters

[PurpleSheetPicks]

Here's the problem when you put 400k+ out for each horse.
You get ones like mirasol.
She finished second today in a very nice effort. Any owner would love to have one like this BUT for 20 to 30k.

I love second, but when you are 400k invested, you can't get run down by 1 for 30 types

[PurpleSheetPicks]

so i know this thread is a mellander killer but the more i think about it alagna is just as guilty of wasting owners money.

even in the article today on the usta they pointed out what i already did. guy never has good horses...
here is the quuote from the end

"In addition to Captaintreacherou s, Alagna’s stars have included female trotter Ramona Hill, who beat the boys in the 2020 Hambletonian and was a two-time Dan Patch Award winner"


so as you can see it say STARS PLURAL, but then only lists one other good horse he has had.
i think she raced like 7 times....

just unreal how this rich owners get duped

[Brown jug]

guess its an easy game eh purple ??
most of the guys who pay that money have had numerous million dollar winners
they buy more or pay the tax man

[Harness racer]

Alagna burns a ton more than Melander. 

[rainman2]

Rumor has it that the operations have millions of dollars of expenses (purchase of horses, stakes payments, vet bills, travel expenses, et al) and more often than not {a few good horses excluded} only return pennies on the dollar back to their participants.  The trainer and managing partner(s) don't lose out, the participants do.  And yet these operations exist year after year.  Amazing!