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Originally Posted by The Indomitable DrugS
Until recently, he's been a 13-to-18% guy without that many dramatic move-ups.
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Well he usually has about 100 horses in training at a time, so I suppose you can fit him in with the Doug O'Neill's of the world, where the win % is blunted somewhat by the sheer volume of horses being run.
As far as the move-ups, he's certainly no stranger to turning claimers into stakes horses. You can go as far back as the '80s, where BC Sprint staple and ex-claimer Olympic Prospect was a top CA sprinter for him. I think one of your all-time favorites, Christmas Boy, was another ex-claimer.
His Del Mar season is obviously in overdrive win %-wise, but this is certainly not his "coming out" party (no pun intended).