To call this man a non-horseman is like me calling you or any of the others on this Board non-handicappers. His records speak for themselves and he certainly doesn't need me to defend him (though I will).

As far as his current record goes the answer is quite simple, he doesn't have the horses to compete. He has lost clients and own self-confidence in the Satish Sanan partnership turned out to be the worst thing to happen to him and was certainly not good for Sanans pocket book.

Sanan like any other big spending owner should have used a middleman agent instead of Wayne. Wayne when it comes to buying horses is like you or me being put in a room full of beautiful naked women (maybe men for you)--he is going to want them all, not just a couple. When he blew big bucks for Sanan others saw what happened and have stayed away. Other clients downsized, few new ones came onboard, and your left with very little to work with.

The media has been generous to Wayne in this downcycle. However, I do find it interesting how often some members of the media would chronicle the number of bad yearly buys he would make and now that THEIR GUY BAFFERT has probably blown thru about 75 MILLION worth of horseflesh (placing a value on homebreads) in the last three years, they have selective memory loss.

When look at the Stallions he has produced (how about Grand Slam currently) the Stakes Wins, Training Titles, Money Earned, Top Quality Assistants, etc, none of these others guys even belong in the same room.
Every day these guys wake up and go to work they are trying to get to where Wayne has already been in terms of accomplishment and achievement.

In our own respective professions the same standard holds true.