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Old 09-20-2006, 08:00 PM
Rupert Pupkin Rupert Pupkin is offline
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Originally Posted by DaHoss9698
Well I disagree, if Pletcher has 200 or so horses, he has maybe 25 or so, max, still running at 4 or 5. What about Baffert, how many 4 or 5 year olds does he have running? Would you not agree that they are the three biggest when it comes to 2 and 3 year olds, and maybe add in Asmussen. How many 2 year olds does Frankel, Mandella, Drysdale run? Not many. They are different kinds of trainers.
That is true that Frankel, Mandella, and Drysdale are different types of trainers from Lukas. I agree with that. But even though they are different, they still do well with young horses. Mandella just won the Del Mar Futurity. He's won the BC Juvenille and the BC Juvenille Filly. The good trainers listen to their horses. Sure these guys want to win 2 year old races. Sure they want to win the Derby. But they're not going to push the horse if the horse isn't ready or if the horse is getting sore. That's my whole point.

I think Pletcher has more than 25 horses left out of 200. If that was all that he had left, he wouldn't be winning so many races with 4 and 5 year olds. He's won a ton of races with 4 and 5 year olds this year.
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