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Originally Posted by sumitas
I can't imagine Pletcher not knowing surfaces . The man is a great trainer .
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What makes you think Todd Pletcher ever even saw Ikigai? Ever? Do you think Pletcher spends a great deal of time overseeing his Chicago string? No one has brought up that a lot of horses that have 'Trained by Todd Pletcher' attached to them are trained by him in name only. Pletcher is indeed great, but even he is hard-pressed to lay hands and eyes on the 300 horses in the 5-6 venues that have his name on the shed. They're being trained by his assistants in the Pletcher "program" method. Every horse treated more or less the same. So when one or 20 of them fall through the cracks because they didn't respond to the "program" and needed singular attention, don't be so dumbfounded.
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