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Originally Posted by ibet2win
In the wrong hands? What a ridiculous thing to say. Lukas is a hall of famer who was leading money winner for like 10 years straight.....AND who do you think trained Todd Pletcher??????
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This is a complete fallacy. Just because Pletcher worked for Lukas, that doesn't mean that Lukas taught him how to train. Pletcher was already a competent horseman and that is why Lukas hired him. I do give Lukas credit for having a good eye for talent and always hiring extremely competent assistants. When Lukas had strings all over the country, he almost always had excellent assistants that were capable of training the horses on their own.
Anyway, Pletcher trains nothing like Lukas. His philosophy is totally different from Lukas. They are polar opposites. If you listen to interviews with any of Lukas' former assistants, they are always asked what they learned from Lukas. You will notice that they never mentiong learning anything about training. When Kiaran McLaughlin was asked what he learned from Lukas, he said that he learned how to get owners and that type of thing. When Pletcher was asked the question, he said that he learned alot about organizational skills and how to run a big operation.
You will never hear any of those guys say that they learned anything about training from Lukas.
I totally agree with Ateam about Lukas. I know that you probably think Lukas' results speak for themselves but if you want to make that argument then you have to look at his results over the last 5 years also. He probably has the worst winning percentage in graded stakes races of any trainer in the country.