Nice Patient Drive By Bongiorno At The Red Mile Today

[makingit]

Won the $82,000.00 Bluegrass with good drive against great drivers. Good for him.

[John Moody]

Agree , you fucking idiots that hate him , if you had any money to bet you would love to have a guy like him who has blood and hair on his whip after the race , no you fucking morons would rather have a guy that sits chili and saves his horse for next week , wise up!

[Brown jug]

who cares
irrelevant

[NOTHING BUT TRUTHS]

If he had real gas like noble he wouldn't need a whip.

[SDST2009]

Agree , you fucking idiots that hate him , if you had any money to bet you would love to have a guy like him who has blood and hair on his whip after the race , no you fucking morons would rather have a guy that sits chili and saves his horse for next week , wise up!

Am I correct that you just condoned whipping a horse until it bleeds?

[SeattleSlew]

Agree , you fucking idiots that hate him , if you had any money to bet you would love to have a guy like him who has blood and hair on his whip after the race , no you fucking morons would rather have a guy that sits chili and saves his horse for next week , wise up!

I owned and raced quite a few higher-level trotters from 1971 to 1999 and was almost always in the paddock for the races.  Over the years I had some very fine trainers and some true HOF drivers for my horses; I always was back in the paddock to see my horse(s) when the race was over and if a driver had "carved up" my horse (win or lose) I went out of my way to find him and tell him to his face that he would never touch one of my horses again and can assure you that I never EVER had one of the "butchers" drive for me again.

[SDST2009]

I owned and raced quite a few higher-level trotters from 1971 to 1999 and was almost always in the paddock for the races.  Over the years I had some very fine trainers and some true HOF drivers for my horses; I always was back in the paddock to see my horse(s) when the race was over and if a driver had "carved up" my horse (win or lose) I went out of my way to find him and tell him to his face that he would never touch one of my horses again and can assure you that I never EVER had one of the "butchers" drive for me again.

Good on you

Anyone can observe that successful drivers can get more out of a horse without indiscriminate use of the whip (Dexter, James MacDonald, Dave Miller come to mind). Most horses won't tolerate that handling for long, either. Let's not forget JB putting a horse into the dirt (and another one permanently) giving his horse the ol' "blood and hair" treatment.