And Bid, lets call a spade a spade shall we?
If you are trying to delude us into thinking that horsemanship is superior because only superwealthy own horses over there and the trainers don't have the financial pressure that many of their American counterparts do to perform, thats nonsense as well.
Those "broke trainers" rise each day and have to return cash to non sheikh and non Aga Kahn owners as well as themselves.
The don't have the luxury of being able to just gallop around for months at a time aiming for three races a year.
Which makes the job they do all the more impressive.
You're right, I suppose at "yards" where the wealthy owner is paying the payroll and you can hire the finest of all all help, that is an advantage they have.
That doesn't make them better horsemen, it makes them trainers with wealthier owners. They don't have to pay a free lancer named Franky 15 bucks to breeze one as soon as hes done breezing one for another barn.
Despite this advantage to the Euros, they regularly get disgraced and thumped in dirt races, their horses never break from the gate, and they have even given up trying to win the Derby.
Give me on of those "broke" trainers from over here when I'm trying to win a Derby or Classic any day of the week.
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