Nor do I, as is obvious to anyone who follows what I write, and I haven't been in a Lambourn pub on more than the odd occasion [after racing] for many a month. What a damn stupid thing to say.
I'm ill. I'm awaiting a third bout of sinus surgery which might take months to come through. Meanwhile: I have severe respiratory problems due to chronic sinus disease, which mean I can hardly breathe; and hardly sleep. I haven't been out of the house or indeed out of bed since Xmas day. I can't concentrate for long, and I certainly can't follow the finer details of stats of that sort - which tbh don't interest me that much except in so far as they show a trend, and I can pick up that by skimming and reading the conclusion, as any half intelligent person could. And I don't want to read a load of SL's posts in which - as usual when she is refuting criticism of a favourite horse/trainer - just keep repeating the same point, a bit louder and more aggressively. I don't enjoy that sort of conflict [and agreed Warbler, you haven't been 'slanging' back - but you've made up in quantity what she's offered in vitriol LOL].
I've never dissed Warbler's posts, and never shall; they are obviously very well thought out and all of us can be grateful that he puts them up. That does not oblige us all to give them the same time and attention that he obviously does to write them, though those interested in such arcane details no doubt do. I take from them the bits that interest me, or to which I feel there is a response I can make, as in the case of MWDS, or yard viruses - a subject which I've not only read up a great deal in racing/horse mags, but discussed with quite a few professionals, esp trainers.
Warbler knows more about stats than I could learn in a month of Sundays, I just don't have the maths. On the other hand I know more about horses than Warbler ever will - I first rode when I was 3 or 4, my grandmother was racing mad, my godfather owned racehorses, and I've followed racing on and off all my life, intensively in the last 10 years. I've had shares in horses myself. And btw, I didn't set foot in Lambourn til I was in my mid 50s 
I've known Alan King personally for about 5/6 years, so obviously I take a great deal of detailed interest in his career and methods, quite apart from my interest in the Elite horses in his string. I think that entitles me to an opinion on whether or not AK has just made a ballsup here, or whether there might be some other reason for his current spate of underforming runners.
There's no call for mindless insults just because I choose quite reasonably to refute Warbler's conclusion in the instance of MWDS.
I'll be kind and assume you'd just come in from the pub AC when you posted that last night :xmassanta:
