Ruffianlover

This entire thing has gotten out of hand. While I understand that Hollendorfer’s big name horses do tend to get injured more often than other busy/ popular trainers (Songbird, Instagrand, shared belief, battle of midway, Unique Bella, etc) unless they flat out say what the ‘charges’ are against him this seems to all be based on circumstantial evidence. Especially when there are plenty of non innocent trainers running their horses all over these tracks that are jumping on this train. It’s a darn shame a hall of famer and classy guy like Jerry is going to go out like this. I hope he pulls a West and brings a lawsuit to them.

The only horse I see with a shot is Omaha beach since he already is undefeated this year, has two graded stakes wins over quality horses, and if he wins the Pa derby and wins the classic or even out-finishes all the other three year olds (unless war of will or maximum security wins the travers) he’s in.

What the hell is going on? What did he do to deserve this from multiple tracks if he didn’t break any rules?

It’s a really baaaaaaad year for racing.... Smh

The excuse isn’t the lay-off. It was that the horse wasn’t himself which is the entire reason he didn’t run in the rest of the Tc trail and why he had bloodwork done and got checked out. It was clear Servis did not want to run him here and his hand was probably forced by the west’s.

Agreed

Good article Brian. How quick people are to forget Omaha beach. You hit the nail on the head. He was the most talked about and dominant horse going into the derby, and now people are like ‘hmmm division is wide open’. Undefeated on the dirt since his close second place finish, and beat some nice horses without even running on the TC Trail in game winner, Improbable, country house, etc. my guess is if he comes back the same or better and he takes a prep, the PA derby, and finishes well in the classic he’s three year old champ

Let’s see how Omaha beach comes back first before we make premature statements. He has always been the cream of this crop

Doubtful

The division is ripe for the taking, all he has to do is reach out and grab it. Even though he missed the TC, having already beat Game Winner, Gunmetal Grey, Long Range Toddy, Improbable, and Country House, all he has to do is Win his prep, the PA Derby, and finish ahead of the other 3 year olds in the BCC and the award is his.