We are going to see a bunch of runners with 8 and 9 furlong prep wins, though. All the trainers will do now is look around for the race with the fewest quality horses left without a top colt. 8 and 9 furlong preps everywhere from New York to Idaho, throwing money at all the semi good colts they can find.
Cherry Pick City.
It will be just like this year. 3 decent colts and 17 that finish starting about 5 lengths back.
Pletcher invented the game. You buy half the decent colts in a 2 year old sale. Place them with 20 owners with money coming out of their ears. Win them all kinds of money with horses bred to win at 2. Run them into the ground placing them at Gulfstream, Keeneland, Fair Grounds, somewhere in Texas, Tampa, outer Arkansas, wherever else he can put them where he doesn't run them against each other. Eventually you have winnowed the list to 2 or 3 maybe's. Enter everything still standing in the Derby. Tell the owners they have to go, they have points! Fill the whole card up with the herd that hasn't made the grade.
Oh boy! Carpe Diem!
Oh boy! Materiality!
He won't get many Derby winners, but he sure will rake in the money in the preps. I've been watching him for years.
Ever talk to him at the track? I have.
The first time he is fawning all over you. By the end of the race where he met you, he's checked on line. If you have less than a few million he makes sure he stays as far away as he can get. And it's experience talking.