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Originally Posted by slewpy

why would you say that nick zito is a great horse trainer? he let jamie sanders train his horses for years then he had the guy training his horses who took over the whittny horses...nick zito hasnt trained any horses in years. you have to be near the horses to train them, same with baffert,lukas etc...pletcher is to some degree still hands on but aint a man in the world who can train more than 20 horses at the same time,,,steve asmussen doesnt even go to the barn but once a week, so who is training those horses. john ward hasnt touched a horse outside of the paddock in years,,,the list goes on and on,,,these guys are business men not horse trainers,,,jamie sanders is still a horse trainer, and its 99% horse and 1% luck the trainer and everything else have no meaning

funny i personally saw john ward and mrs ward.. nick zito ,lukas in saratoga most mornings..training them..and abrau sp is another stellar record..whitny should have given them to anyone else....your argument is weak and assman was on time out most of the year blasi was in fact all around too