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Originally Posted by Rupert Pupkin
A perfect example of a guy who tries to run his horses every 2-3 weeks is Lukas. He has great horses yet his winning percentage is very low. His win percentage is 9%. One of the main reasons his winning percentage is so low is because he runs his horses so often. Ron Ellis is exactly the opposite. Most of his horses only run about 5 times a year. He won at a 29% clip last year. He would be the first to tell you that one of the main reasons his winning percentage is so high is because he gives his horses plenty of time between races. Ellis probably has less than half the starts per horse than Lukas.
It's pretty much the same for guys like Frankel and Pletcher. Their win percentage is always around 25%. Their win percentage would drop like crazy if they started running their horses every 2-3 weeks. Not only that, their horses wouldn't last. Frankel has spoken many times publicly about how horses need plenty of rest between races and that if you wheel them back in 3 weeks, they will often times give a sub-par effort.
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I understand where you are coming from Richi, but I think Lukas might have more problems than running them too often.