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Originally Posted by DaHoss9698
Rupert with all due respect you are guessing at the percentages you have posted here. 2 of the other 3 trainers you have mentioned are a completely different kind of trainer than DWL, or Pletcher for that matter. Frankel and Mandella tend to be real patient with their horses, and only a select few race as two year olds. TP and DWL bread and butter is 2 and 3 year old racing. They are given the high priced horses, and have a responsibility to earn the blacktype, so they can be sold, or used as sires or broodmares. Seriously, as much as I like TP, do you really see him with a lot of 4 and 5 year olds. Hardly, just as you don't see Frankel and Mandella with a lot of 2 year olds. Also, Lukas has a ton of horses standing at stud, come on now.
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Pletcher does very well with 4 and 5 year olds. He's winning stakes races all the time on both the turf and dirt with older horses. Pletcher has probably won 15-20 stakes races this year with older horses. Just this past weekend he won a $300,000 grass race with the 4 year old filly Ready's Gal at Woodbine. In addition, he's probably won 30 allowance races this with older horses. I think Lukas may have won 1 stakes race this year with an older horse.