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Thanks pal. It’s frustrating for sure. I don’t want to create more problems for myself and give her more reason to scratch my horses or put them on the list, so I’ve stayed quiet for the most part other than a couple confrontations with her. I know she has a tough job to do and I respect that, but many many people have seen it, the amount of horses of mine that get scratched or put on the list is hard to believe, when we all watch much lamer horses race every week that don’t get scratched or put on the list.
I guess Auciello cant complain about the latest Vet,s list long term, the horse bled, and a new Vet, plus a claimed entered....Flight Crew.......
His complaint was the punishments weren't coming down uniformly, that other trainers at Mohawk who had horses that were conspicuously lame, much worst shape than his were allowed to race, and the standard he was being held too there wasn't happening at the BigM.No horses unwell, or questionable should be put at risk. We domesticated them, we need to look out for them.
Trigger, i think you view things with eyes wide open..but taking Auciello at his word, without him providing evidence is well,,hhmmm...problematic............all we have here is whataboutism
More than one person I know up there says Carmen is a nice guy but his training methods leave a lot to be desired. In fairness just about every horse Per touches improves leaps and bounds. I suspect it's a little both, an over zealous Vet and a trainer that sends suspect horses to race when maybe they should have a little time off.
In all fairness, Per improves off just about everyone. Quite often I claim horses and improve off others also, and they don’t necessarily improve once I lose them. I’m no different than anybody else. Some horses succeed on my program and some don’t. But if you watch enough races up here, I rarely have horses going out that are crippled and with big head nods. But if one races poorly and gets beat 15 lengths, mine are constantly getting put on the list for no reason. She’ll find something “oh he’s lameLeft hind” on a horse that has never been lame in its life and even after the driver tells her he isn’t lame, just raced like shit. Then in that case, they get put on for being sick, without showing any signs of being sick. Is it right for a vet to just speculate that a horse is sick just because it got beat 15 lengths? They don’t scope it or pull blood or even look at it for more than 20 seconds. Couldn’t there be other reasons? Could the horse have shut its air off, or maybe got driven like an idiot and got tired? Obviously like anybody else, I have the odd one that hurts itself in a race. It happens, and obviously those are justified. But I’ve had wayyyy more horses scratched and/or put on the list than any other trainer up here in the last 10 years, and it’s not because I am trying to race lame horses that shouldn’t be racing.
Last night had nothing to do with me lol. Hennessy was filling in as vet. Flight Crew didn’t race great but wasn’t horrible for the conditions. The claimant noticed a trickle of blood in one nostril, likely just a broken blood vessel or something, and low key started freaking out, calling for the commission vet and the judges to reverse the claim, he should get his money back blah blah blah. The horse drank two buckets of water and wasn’t in any distress at all. The claim cannot be reversed. We have new rules coming into place next year that might have reversed the claim in this case, but that’s not til February of 2026. As of right now, a horse could drop dead in the race and it is yours. I’m somewhat a fan of the new rules coming in, but as of right now, the claimant has to take this horse home. He kept causing a stink and earned himself a long term vets list for bleeding and has to qualify. Talk about shooting yourself in the foot. I guess Hennessy did scope her afterwards and she showed a bunch of mucous with a tiny bit of blood. Consistent with being a bit sick, which is how she raced.
Big Sexy,Thanks for your updates. Keep up the good work and best wishes for a great 2026.
If they are discriminatory, sounds like it, it's just not sustainable.
