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Old 08-13-2012, 02:19 PM
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Originally Posted by outofthebox View Post
I believe he is very content with the amount he has. He likes his stable to be in one location, right before his eyes..He kind of has the John Ward system of train a lot and run sparingly, but with very good results. We were friends before he ever started training and it's no surprise to me that he's happy just the way things are..
if i were a trainer, i'd want to be hands on...there's no way i'd want a set up like pletcher, where you're more of a manager trying to keep tabs on employees, and no real time to be the trainer. i doubt it's possible that pletcher is the actual trainer of many of those horses under his name.
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