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Old 06-15-2009, 03:18 PM
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Originally Posted by VOL JACK
I thought Jimmy Jerkens was a MEGA trainer. Maybe not in the way of number of horses but certainly in ability.
Jerkens is a very old school type trainer. He would be considered to some hard on his horses...He works them very fast, etc. ( im not knocking the guy, Id put him in my top 5 for all trainers.)
I read an interview with him. Last year I think in the Bloodhorse, 'he said dad taught him to train his horses hard and the good ones would respond'.

he's a good trainer don't get me wrong, but you don't hear owners switching to him with big time horses, like baffert, Ass, Pletcher, dutrow. Just my 2 cents. I guess evans thinks pletcher can better campaign a horse like QR for the future, but the guy has soo much stock like ass, how much time can he really spend with the horse


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