Frankel’s Horse Should Be Worth the Weight

Why does the L.A. Times see fit to give Bobby Frankel, one of the country’s most overstocked trainers, a forum to deride the very people who’ve enabled him to be successful when he stated after the Strub Stakes that Medaglia d’Oro was being pointed for the Dubai World Cup?

For Frankel to suggest that 124 pounds is too much for that horse to carry is an insult to his horse and all racing historians. A great horse must carry weight over a classic distance and defeat competition of equal strength to be considered in that vein. Laz Barrera had a right to complain before the Hollywood Gold Cup his Affirmed won, but he was too classy an individual to do so. That’s why nothing the trainers of today run will ever be considered in the same breath as the truly great ones of our recent past.

Anthony Berardinelli

North Hollywood