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She definitely thinks more of herself than her husband does. After all isn’t he banging someone else.
She is not the first one to boink the boss and hit the jackpot. How about their champion Thoroughbred, Shancelot ? The fastest thing on the planet while under the medications of Jorge Navarro. After finishing second in the Breeders Cup Sprint, the indictments came down and they gave him to Steve "The Assman". Asmussen could not get him to go and he retired to stud. Now the T-bred people may be a bit more savvy as his first crop this year of less than 20 tearlings averaged about $25K. Nice job of managing the fastest horse on the planet.
Aside from an owner being in collusion with the trainer, how do you know? Some owners employ trainers who win. Some owners employ high percentage trainers. Trainers who win and have a high win percentage tend to attract owners. So, what does the owner know? If you are an owner and you send a horse to Brett Pelling, what do you know? Linda Toscano? Steve Elliott? Tony Alagna? I believe they all have at least one positive test on their record, so what do you do and what do you know? Do you look at the offense and decide? How do you quantify who it's OK to give a horse to and who it is not?
I’ve been on the ownership part of this business for a touch under 20 years and a fan/bettor since the 1980’s. Only over the last handful of years you could see how ‘inflated’ many trainers percentages actually were. Also over time you found out the actual ‘stories’ of what actually happened via USTA rulings as well as other things by ‘word of mouth’—confirmed and/or rumor. Even I can figure out who I would buy/claim a horse from and what trainers I would actually use today.
OK, so of those listed which are on the OK list and which are on the not OK list?
The famous viral video of Navarro was 2016, he got put on probation by the track. he got popped at monmouth with a positive summer, 2017Neither of these incidents raised any questions for Ms crawford?
This is why she employed them, these people had the real good gas. Her mother in law has horses with Gates he ain't got no gas. I know her horses (Michelle Crawford) were shipped to tracks with loaded needles and syringes to be given on race day.