Unscientific Study (1013 Views)
Posted by:
Chuckles_the_Clown2 (IP Logged)
Date: April 09, 2006 08:30PM
Just quickly perused the following link of 2006 Triple Crown Nominees. What became apparent in considering purchases is that there is a "Big 3" in American Trainers, at least for those sales purchases nominated to the Triple Crown in 2006.
Without a doubt the leader in dollars spent and number of horses nominated was Toddini Pletcher.
Bob Baffert followed in second, mainly due to the fact that an 8 million dollar Storm Cat purchase "Mr. Sekeguchi" was in his column. But for that horse, the 2nd place leader in the sales may have been, drum roll please...
D Wayne Lukas
Additionally, Mr Lukas had a large number of nominations of nice pedigree Overbrook Farm stock homebreds. Lukas clearly had gotten the least out of his runners of the three.
Baffert certainly was a loser in the money spent vs. earnings returned, however he was far better than either Pletcher or Lukas.
Zito appeared to trail these 3 in sales dollars spent considerably.
I have no data, this was an eyeball study.
http://www.drf.com/tc/kentuckyderby/2006/futures/pps/tc_noms8.pdf
Edited 1 time(s). Last edit at 04/09/2006 08:31PM by Chuckles_the_Clown2.