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Originally Posted by DaHoss9698
Well a million times is a pretty big stretch. This could go on forever, I will agree with you that Lukas has had his fair share of breakdowns, and I don't know what the percentages are, but there are many trainers that train in a similar way of Lukas.
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If there is another trainer that trains like him, I'd like to know who it is.
There are guys who may train cheap claimers like that but I don't know any trainer that trains good horses like that. Some of these trainers are real butchers when it comes to cheap claimers. They feel that it's not economical to turn them out so they will just run them no matter what. If they have a $10,000 claimer that is damaged beyond repair, it is pointless from a financial point of view to turn them out because they will come back with the same problem. It's expensive to turn a horse out. So these trainers will just keep running the horse. They will drop him in class if they need to but they won't turn them out. Some of these trainers will do this with a claiming horse even if he isn't damaged beyond repair. They may figure that two in the hand is better than one in the bush and they may also gigure that's its not worth it to spend $10,000 to give the horse a 6 month vacation if the horse is only worth $20,000 to begin with. They'd rather just drop the horse down in class and hope to win the race and get him claimed.