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Originally Posted by Cannon Shell
There arent a handful of big owners that dont have an "advisor" whose sole purpose on life is deciding what to do with their bosses horses. Most of them wouldnt know a horse if it fell over them but they believe they can read sheets or TG's or some other methodology that tells them as soon as a horse runs a really good race you should "space" the races further or like Alpha stop running entirely. That is the exact opposite of how people felt 30 years ago.
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In a lot of cases -- these owners would be no worse off if they had RockHardTen85 managing the stable.
It's surprising how often you see poor placement and overall management of such good and expensive horses.
I'm talking about examples more subtle than something like cluelessly running Trinniberg in the Derby -- but if some of these owners really do have people managing placement -- they wouldn't be any worse off if they just left it up to the trainer and cut out a middle man.
And the in-race tactics they use are often brutally incompetent. They make the placing look genius by comparison.