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06-10-2006, 01:37 PM
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if you have the right trainer, you can leave it up to him or her. problem is that there are a lot of naive people who get taken. of course that happens quite often all over, so obviously it will happen in racing as well.
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06-12-2006, 01:21 AM
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Did you guys catch the interview with Kiaran McLaughlin on TVG. He was talking about the 7 years that he worked for Lukas. He basically said that he learned a lot about how to meet owners and how to be organized. He never said anything about learning training methods. I'm glad he was honest. As I've said before, none of the guys that worked for Lukas train anything like Lukas. Their styles are completely different.
Don't get me wrong. I'm not saying that these guys were not lucky to work for Lukas. Quite to the contrary. They were extremely fortunate to work for Lukas. Lukas teaches you the most important things. He teaches you how to to be successful. He teaches you the business aspect of how to be a succesful trainer which is the most imprtant thing. None of thse guys needed lessons on how to train. Guys like Pletcher, McLaughlin, and Hennig were already excellent horsemen. That is why Lukas hired them. Lukas hires the best. He always hired guys that were capable of running things when he wasn't there. He always hired the best and the brightest. He wouldn't hire some beginner that didn't know their stuff. When you look at guys like Pletcher, McLAughlin, Hennig, Stewart, etc. I think that all of these guys owe much of their success to Lukas because he taught them all the intangibles of how to be a successful trainer.
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06-12-2006, 03:45 AM
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Pletcher and Hennig owe SOME of their success to DWL... I'd say they owe MUCH more of it to their trainer fathers. In addition, Kieran and Dale Romans also got their starts at the same time as Hennig in Mark's dad's barn. (Kieran is married to Mark's sister). Kieran also owes something to Del Carroll, who helped him when he was struggling right at the start of his training career... But they ALL do look to DWL as the guy that taught them how to run a big time professional operation. Steve
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06-12-2006, 04:14 AM
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