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Originally Posted by brianwspencer
I won't claim to have any real knowledge of the issue, but I do have the one good example of watching him (or his owners or someone...) ruin a potentially good horse.
Ex Caelis had the makings of a very talented horse early on and she was just terribly managed: spotted way over her head almost her entire career so far, and just got progressively worse and worse on the racetrack when she should have been a legitimate graded stakes contender.
Not sure what contributes to that overall, but it certainly didn't endear him to me any.
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Good point. I remember that horse as many others do too. Lukas has been known, according to the masses and people who truly have qualified opinions, to place horses over their head, very aggressively, etc. He has a reputation of wanting to be "at the big dance" so to speak. I don't know if that's true or not. Like I said, I don't know if the spotting of his horses are his doing, the owners, a combination, etc.
I think very often "perception" becomes the "reality", or things that are somewhat, sometimes, slightly true, etc. -- often become the norm, always true, the standard, etc.
I guess we will soon see -- the proof that is.
Eric