Pletcher could have won the Derby . . .

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Originally Posted by King Glorious

Never any guarantees. Maybe it's just my philosophy. If I'm going to take a shot, I'm going to do it with my best bullets. If I lose, I'll know I gave it my best shot and it just wasn't meant to be. I know it's easy to say from behind a keyboard but I believe that I'd be the kind of trainer (and I know there are plenty on here that are glad I'm not) that would never be left wondering "what if?" I'd be a Lukas type. Can't win if u don't enter.

You had better have a lot of money to buy your own. Running too much has killed alot of my business. If I could learn to sit it out and just wait for the perfect spot or just claim and drop , my % would be a whole lot better and I'm sure I would have a lot more horses to train. There wont be anymore Lukas types. The game has changed too much. There are too many 'experts' armed with sheets and too many owners who only look at win % when choosing a trainer and listen to the 'experts' with the sheets. I'm not saying that you are wrong for wanting to take a Derby shot, but I do think that she was far from a likely winner.