Not sure how warranted Harty's tarnished reputation is. While his stock is generally blue-blooded, most of them seem to be backwards late-developers, comebackers, and A.P. Indy-related plodders. Further confounding his stats is the propensity of Godolphin to quickly pluck up any of his horses that happen to show stakes quality.
It's not like he is butting heads with Bob Baffert in all the West Coast 2yo races anymore. He's got a few top-tier owners that send him their second-tier horses.
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