Todd Pletcher

[The Indomitable DrugS]

Originally Posted by HaloWishingwell

I'm in no way defending Pletcher but as impressive visually that Awesome Maria and R Heat Lightning looked their Beyers were in the 100-102 range. It's not like they ran up 115 Beyer. Can it be said these two were running against overrated shit?

Yeah - this stuff happens every winter ... and sometimes during the first two weeks or so of the Saratoga meet leading into the yearling sale.

For the rest of the year - Pletcher's ROI is typically in the toilet bowl ... and guys like Marty Wolfson can take some of his worst performing stock and transform them into real horses.

Pletcher has all the big edges over anyone else in terms of stock ... there are at least a few guys out there who would achieve even more than him if they were able to get his stock year in and year out. That's beyond obvious - and even smart people seem blind to it.