Sorry, but if Allday was retained by historically low percentage trainers at NYRA, like John Candlin or Pat Kelly or Gary Sciacca-- all who have somehow survived on the NYRA circuit while losing races at a 95% clip over the last 5 years-- they would not suddenly become winners.
At the risk of sounding like a broken record, Pletcher, Frankel and Dutrow procure high class stock on behalf of owners who are willing to spend money to compete at the highest levels; these trainers in turn spend the additional money necessary to procure top notch help-- especially exercise riders and assistant trainers.
Dutrow, as I have mentioned before, has blacksmith Alex Leaf working for him almost exclusively (Leaf also works for Tony Dutrow and Thomas Bush). This is undoubtedly an expensive arrangement, but a tremendous advantage. No hoof, no horse.
I\'d like to congratulate the Kouray family, whose Phillip X won race 6 at Aqueduct today. PX was produced by the Kouray\'s mare Aristie, who has also produced Stellianos, Levendis, Thanasi and Christian X. If I\'m not mistaken all of these siblings have won races at NYRA tracks this year. Quite a feat, and it deserves mention.
