Here’s the Twitter chat on it.
https://twitter.com/BH_JBalan/status/862823334664224769
Mark Glatt dove in twice and still couldn’t get it done. There was a four way shake for this alleged cripple last month.
Incidentally, he worked a bullet :58 on June 11 and :59 and change last Friday.
I seem to also recall there being a filly last year who was similarly unclaimable who ran off a couple of wins.
Sure, as long as he keeps working in front of the vet, and passes the subsequent drug screen.
The owner, Reddam is the breeder (raced the dam) and also raced and still owns a big chick of the horse’s sire Square Eddy. Reddam may not be everybodies cup of tea. I’ve met him a few times. Nice enough guy. A good friend of mine has been one of his main advisers for years. Couldn’t speak more highly of the guy. Looks after him really well. MUCH better than any of my client ever did.
O’Neil the trainer has been a bit controversial but that goes with the territory of a high profile trainer. He has trained for Reddham for a long time. Trained Nyquest and Square Eddy.
I don’t see nor suggested anything “nefarious” is going on. Paul Reddam hardly needs the horse or the $20,000 claiming price. Nor does O"Neil.
Disappointed considering how deep his pockets are and the fact this horse has won close to $400,000 for him He doesn’t, hasn’t just retired him and paid to find him a good retirement home. Especially after his bleeding episode 3 races back and was vanned off. Very disappointing. Some people it is just all business I guess. To each their own.
I’m not implying that Reddam/O’Neill are doing anything but exploiting an advantage but if I am the owner of a legitimate $20-25,000 horse running against a horse that arguably is a $32-40,000 horse who is apparently unclaimable and therefore shows up in my races, I might cry foul. His presence is also probably confusing to bettors because as the Twitter feed implied, he’s become pretty notorious at this point.
Besides it just looks bad to have a horse apparently too unsound to change hands working bullet times between races.
It does seem odd that a horse that is a voided claim 3 races in a row is allowed to run (Jimmy Bouncer). So he is sound enough to race but not claim. Odd. The horse we tried to claim ran for 25K in the race where the claim voided. He is probably more of a 32-40K horse, so was a bit suspicious of soundness issues as it was pretty obvious they would lose him. So, either he did have some issues or they knew he couldn’t get taken.
It seems like the rule would work better if the person dropping the claim had the option to claim despite the vet void. Will be very curious where the horse runs next.
We tried to claim a mareally for a broodmare in California a few years ago. Vet voided the claim even though our trainer told him that we didn’t care that she was “unsound”. Mare won 2 more races and never ran for a tag again. Left me a bit jaded.
It looks like Jimmy Bouncer ran in an allowance optional 20 K again on July 7th. He won and got claimed again and this time the claim was not overturned.
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