I will weigh in one more time and then I am out. Shug and the Phipps group are great and I was not intending to knock them.

I only used them to identify people who have the best of everything at their disposal and still have difficulty winning big on a consistent basis. If the stock they produce every year was run thru the old select summer sales the Total Value would be unimaginable. And yet the horses wouldn't run any faster regardless of who bought them. Same goes for Farish. Mineshaft was a big score but otherwise things have been pretty lean.

And even with Mineshaft they sent him to Europe first.