Phil Crone

@thoroughcrowd listed owner. @fml_movies recap writer. Quasi-Actuary. Horse Racing weekend warrior. College basketball obsessor.

[Phil Crone @SteelCard30]

@atTheTrack7 It's getting to the point where if you have a 3yo that can even stand up in January, you might as well take the $600 nomination flyer bc you might be able to win a Classic running an 85 Beyer

[Phil Crone @SteelCard30]

@atTheTrack7 No kidding. Gonna tell @EWest592 to get Horsetron ready

[Phil Crone @SteelCard30]

@atTheTrack7 Yeah, fairly certain any Sheets/Thorograph bettors are fading the Ashland

[Phil Crone @SteelCard30]

@atTheTrack7 Calling late June "soon" 😂😂😂😂

[Phil Crone @SteelCard30]

Right move for Pimlico. You can't just keep fielding subpar Classic races that connections refuse to go to for the sake of tradition. Every Derby prep moved timing years ago, it's time for the Triple Crown to acknowledge the same.

[Sports Business Journal @SBJ]

The Preakness Stakes is set to make a historic shift to one week later in May, sources said, and interest around media rights is picking up as the event's current deal with NBC Sports ends next month. via @AustinKarp .https://t.co/V6Z0ZNwzSv

[Phil Crone @SteelCard30]

@ScenicHillStabl @ChurchillDowns @Romansracing Any opportunities to buy in on this one?

[Phil Crone @SteelCard30]

Yikes. Wild

[Peter Hamilton @PeterHamil73098]

Eliseo Ruiz on #5 bailout billy at Philadelphia.. does it get any more blatant than this? stewards should ban him for life, he looks behind him 4 times to and doesn’t ask the horse for any sort of effort. Terrible look for @parxracing @letsgoracingpa

[Phil Crone @SteelCard30]

@alhallson Yeah date there is just when the search occurred - Papers were sent on Wednesday, entries were actually taken Thursday. We had the horse on the grounds with another trainer who is licensed in FL - we could have run under his name had we known.

[Phil Crone @SteelCard30]

@goofonroof @atTheTrack7 Think I learned the hard way Florida is not one of them. At least not for my stable. And that's all I'll say about that 😶

[Phil Crone @SteelCard30]

@goofonroof @atTheTrack7 In talking with Ethan, the Stewards did say that they wouldn't change trainer once the overnight was out. So that leads me to the conclusion that even if I had made this submission, the Stewards would not have approved it. Sounds like a soft rule that would be nice to spell out

[Phil Crone @SteelCard30]

@goofonroof @atTheTrack7 Well I did some Tampa condition book diving and did find this. Seems like the Racing Office didn't even know this rule as it wasn't even offered as a possibility

[Phil Crone @SteelCard30]

@jserio52 Hoping that one isn't a totally sunk cost🫤

[Phil Crone @SteelCard30]

I'm just despondent and am guessing all we'll get for our trouble is a $400 bill for passing the entry box.

[Darin Zoccali @atTheTrack7]

I try to stay optimistic in racing, both as an industry employee and horse owner, but the last 12 months are making it increasingly difficult. Today, our filly Unfaithful Rose was ordered scratched by the state stewards in Florida from a stake race at Tampa. Why? Because despite our trainer (who ran a horse in the Kentucky Derby last year) submitting all his paperwork for Florida licensing in the timeframe requested and despite them having all the documentation since Thursday, an employee in the racing state agency’s licensing office never put through the verification on his finger prints and thus because of their incompetence, the stewards scratched our filly. Meanwhile, Ethan West is the epitome of what you want in a horse trainer. A decade of training, not a single positive test, an honest and true horsemen. Our ownership group, deeply committed to aftercare, has routinely given away horses to families rather than drop them in for a cheap tag, is comprised of “little guys” trying to do the best we can for our horses. We shipped this filly from Kentucky to Florida and she was 3-1 on the morning line with a real chance in the race. Not to mention we have about 10 owners who traveled down to Florida for the race. I am absolutely flabbergasted and beyond discouraged by all of this. They should be ashamed of themselves for punishing us for their own incompetence. In an economic climate where small stables and owners are struggling to survive, this is how we are treated? Absolutely shameful.

@TampaBayDownsFL @florida_horse @thoroughcrowd

[Phil Crone @SteelCard30]

@goofonroof @atTheTrack7 That's fair and we've never had this happen with another justification. No point in calling now nor do I ever expect to speak to another soul in that office again anyway

[Phil Crone @SteelCard30]

@goofonroof @atTheTrack7 I don't even remember if I asked the stewards or the racing office at Tampa. Regardless, I was told it needed to be declared at the time of entry

[Phil Crone @SteelCard30]

@goofonroof @atTheTrack7 Once I heard the news yesterday afternoon, I actually did call Tampa + the stewards and request if we could change to Steve Cahill, who would have been saddling for us. No dice.

[John Ewing @johnewing]

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[Phil Crone @SteelCard30]

@HofSpillane @IsItSwift $0.89 ROI off four bought - definitely on the better end of the bigger spenders

[Phil Crone @SteelCard30]

@MarcFassano @IsItSwift I didn't include markups - straight sales results and North American earnings

[Phil Crone @SteelCard30]

@IsItSwift I'm not going to complain about them when we're also over here trying to sell yearlings to them!

I do think we run into issues attracting new partners when their initial taste is the big groups that charge high mgmt fees. Tough to differentiate from them