Virtual stable enables fans to follow Marvin Johnson's Success
FANS OF MARVIN JOHNSON RACING can follow their favorite trainer by creating a virtual stable, a free racing option that requires only an email address.
Once created, the stable will send email notifications any time a horse trained by Johnson is either entered or runs. Forget pouring over entries and missing your favorite horse the day you don't check. The virtual stable takes all of the work out of the process of finding a winner.
To login or create a Virtual Stable
An example of Marvin A. Johnson's stats, taken from Equibase.com
What The Hoof?
PERIODICALLY, OR WHENEVER SOMOENE establishes themselves of such
distinction typically found in a manure barn, we'll honor them in our all-new
What the Hoof? Feature.
Candidates for this dubious honor are carefully screened. They must do the
unthinkable, something that seems to happen with far too much regularity in the
great game of horse racing.
Seriously, folks. We aren't making this stuff up. The award recipients are real.
Their names have not been changed out of fear of public backlash.
Without any further ado, the first recipient of the What the Hoof? Award is
Mr. Jim "Mattress Mack" McIngvale, who fired trainer Monica Borell one day after she won the Breeders' Cup Sprint with Runhappy.
Let's see. A horse I, Mattress Mack, own just wraps up an Eclipse Award and wins one of the most prestigious races in the world. Think I'll celebrate the night of the race by buying my trainer a steak dinner and sharing a victory toast with my family.
Then, with the jubilation of the win still at an all-time high, I'll fire my trainer. The next morning after the race.
Never mind that Mattress Mack has gone through a reported 30 trainers during his career as an owner, or that he later addressed a racing conference with ten points about being a good owner by saying that owners--not trainers--should make all decisions regarding their horse. As laughable as that comment is--trainers are hired to manage horses--it pales in comparison to the treatment Borell received.
It's literally unthinkable. Or even imaginable.
Congratulations, Mattress Mack. Your thoughtlessness makes you a very deserving candidate of a What the Hoof? Award. In the future, we hope you exercise better judgement before making rash decisions that overshadow the accomplishments of such a nice horse as Runhappy.
