Strong Contender

Originally Posted by Danzig188

well, i'm not one who has ever come on here gushing over the guy, i just take exception to your opinion that only a classic win makes a top trainer. you'd get that from me regardless of trainer mentioned. boy, you like to paint a wide group with your brush, don't you?

They are all really good trainers, including Pletcher, but Baffert and Lukas never went 0-51 in the most important races of the year. They dominated those races. Their percentages are incredible. Pletcher is excellent but he has excellent horse flesh. I think Frankel is excellent too but until he won with Empire Maker and then the BC Classic it was hard to put him in there with Baffert and Lukas. Pletcher might get there but he isn't the modern day silver fox.