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Originally Posted by parsixfarms
I don't have have all the PPs or numbers in front of me, but using ROI to state that a trainer had a good year doesn't make a lot of sense to me. Baffert's three highest-profile horses during the year were Zensational, Pioneer of the Nile and Lookin at Lucky, and none of them paid a big price (maybe with the exception of Zensational in the Triple Bend). It suggests that a few big prices likely skewed the results.
It's like saying that the partnership in which I'm involved had a great year because our ROI from 29 starters (4 wins) was $4.05. We had a horse that won at Belmont and paid $97.00.
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Baffert won the Pacific Classic with that absolute no-talent disgraceful Maryland pig Richard's Kid. That was one of his 6 different Grade 1 winners last year.
You can argue that RK helped Bafferts ROI numbers in Graded Stakes - and put them totally through the roof in Grade 1 stakes - but it also is a great training accomplishment to win such an important race with such a poorly thought of rat of a race horse.
01-15-2010, 04:44 PM
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