Pletcher's stock

[Calzone Lord]

I'd love to know an exact number of:

* How many six figure 2yo sale horses he gets a year.

* How many six figure yearling sale horses he gets a year.

* How many regally bred homebreds he gets a year.

Not to mention the fact that he gets better transfers than any other trainer year in and year out (Takes other guys star 3yo's like Quality Road and Lawyer Ron and more recently hot maiden winners)

If it was college football -- his program would get about 70 four and five star recruits out of high school every year. Guys like Larry Jones have to do their damage with just one and a half big owners.

If Pletcher is USC, Texas, Florida, and Ohio State combined into one. Larry Jones is like the Rutgers Scarlet Knights John Sherrifs is like Texas Tech and Jeff Mullins is like Youngstown State in terms of quality of recruit.

Not that anything is wrong with this...but you think Pletcher would have developed a special horse or two.

He's only had a single horse finish in the top 3 in the BC Classic (Flower Alley - who bombed afterwards)

He's only had two horses win a 3yo Classic event (Super Saver and Rags to Riches -- both never won again)

Amazingly, he's only had a single horse of either gender win a 2yo championship (Uncle Mo -- and he couldn't manage to win a single important race afterwards despite having a world of talent)

He's certainly never had a horse come close to capturing Horse of the Year.

Obviously, we are all rooting very hard for Pletcher to get his first Horse of the Year contender. He has certainly paid his dues and no one deserves it more than him.