Todd is a solid trainer, but if he wasn't with the stock he puts his hand on then that would even be a bigger story IMO....he trains more blue-blood pedigrees than anyone who has ever taken out a trainers liscence and it has to be rather luxurious to slip a saddle on 1st string horses from the leading owners in the industry such as the Melnyks, the Coolmore guys, Padua, the Jones, Overbrook....what billionaires have I forgotten here?

I choose to believe that Asmussen is every bit the trainer that Todd is because he manages more numbers with success, yet he has had a lot of success developing horses into Grade I winners by his clients paying a drop ion the bucket at the auctions compared to what Pletchers clients pay....Steve's core owners only can pay $100-$200K for a horse as to where Pletcher gets $16 million horses....big difference....Steve has 1 Storm Cat in his barn, Todd has over 10....Steve has zero A.P. Indy's in his barn, Todd has about 10...

I guess my point is that if you allowed guys like Steve Asmussen and the Cole Normans of the world saddle the same stock that Todd saddles, there would be absolutely zero drop off in productiveity IMO...

Todd has a great luxury with the connections he has made in the game...his dad preps all of the babies at Ocala and is one of the more reknowned guys around that areas for years....Also, working for Lukas has helped his exposure to the big outfits....he has had politics on his side from day one in getting the top clients.....He is surely a great horseman...I'm just saying that it is easy for someone to come on here and say how good Jeef Gordon is when he is always driving the fastest car...