Bluegrass Cat Retired

Originally Posted by oracle80

KY,
What you don't realize is that that stable employs a racing manager who used to train himself, even won a Belmont Stakes, who has tremendous input into the running of those horses. I'm tryiing hard to hold my tongue and not use words I shouldn't to you, because perhaps you just are clueless about this and don't realize that.
But the fact is that Todd was lukewarm about committing to the race, and the racing manager and the farm certainly made the call about running him moreso than Todd did, and that would involve right up to the end as well.
Instead of focusing this on Todd, perhaps you should be aiming a lot of it at the racing manager.And speculating how close a horse with a fracture would have been to another horse without the fracture is really kind of impossible.

So what you're saying is that Pletcher doesn't call the shots in his barn? He's just their puppet? OK, I believe that.
BTW, what about those returning stakes winners?