Pletcher earns 2.16 mill on BC Day

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Originally Posted by hoovesupsideyourhead

when your the the 1000 lb gorella of stables you get the chance to have them do that....not hateing on pleacher ..loved frieindly island..then when i saw the way the track was running ..liked him even more..heres the thing .somebody stated that in the end having a elite 2/3 trainers is bad for the game equate it to baseball...if the yankees could buy any player at will and other teams players wanted to jump to the yanks..there wont be enough players left to field a team...ie will we see 5 x coupled races with 6 horses in...the other trainers/teams /game/ suffers as the biggest stables continue to grow..and the smaller operations fade away...

I thought the relatively modest stables did great ... Catalano, Wolfson, Nafzger (old skool), etc.... I just think that the racing media obsesses on the big barns, who's being retired to breed and the sheiks, and struggles for interesting things to write about. Sure there's stories about these people this week, but in another week it will change back. If you want an example, take a look at the topic of Beyer's column today (though after needing to go two-deep to find Ouija Board and nothing else, it's probably a good idea for him to change the topic). And people seemingly follow the limited racing media fairly blindly. Nobody on this forum is starting threads about Catalano or Wolfson or, for that matter Douglas, Castro, Jara or even 2x winner Detorri. Horseplayers are just a jaded bunch, would rather criticize the way the track played or diss an owner for retiring a horse, etc,... rather than care about the positives.