Waiting Guilty

“So never ever wanna waste my time/See me living just a bunch of lies/Hanging jury want to look my way/I ain’t praying you know it ain’t my game.   Waiting guilty baby/want to send me home/Waiting Guilty baby gotta send me home” – Black Crowes

Seven weeks ago if you were both smart enough to read my blog and courageous enough to act on the advice contained therein you made some money on the world’s biggest, thoroughbred lottery, The Kentucky Derby. I’ll Have Another came around the final turn and tracked down Bodemeister.  Two weeks later he repeated the scenario in the Preakness. Just hours from a Triple Crown attempt, IHA and his connections at dawn this morning left town.

I’ll Have Another is owned by a gentleman by the name of Paul Reddam.  Paul has a business similar to that of Whitey Bulger.  But because Mr. Reddam’s is incorporated it’s called lending instead of loan sharking.  The principles (and interest rates) are about the same.

The trainer Doug (aka “Drug”) O’Neill has been charged more times than Keith Richards for using drugs on the horses entrusted to his care.

The jockey, Mario Guiterriez up until seven weeks ago was an unknown rumored to be walking the fine line of the law jockey in Vancouver, Canada.

So basically, you have a an owner whose business practices are questionable, a trainer who prefers better performance through chemistry and a unknown jockey of questionable character with nothing to lose and everything to gain.  The only problem it appears is they may have been too successful.

This week in an overreaction to the drug problem in horse racing (basically makes MLB players look like they are just smoking weed, comparatively) the New York Racing Association imposed all kinds of safeguards and tests prior to tomorrow’s running of The Belmont.  So at 5:30 AM this morning IHA and his connections decided no Belmont, no triple crown, no more racing in the hope that most importantly there will be no investigation.  This is something right out of a Dick Francis novel.

The good news in all of this is now the Belmont is wide open:

1.  Street Life

2. Union Rages

3. Atigun

4. Paynter

For Jay Cronely’s picks go here.

KOKO