Todd Pletcher
Todd Pletcher
Todd Pletcheris a leading American thoroughbred horse trainer. He has won four consecutive Eclipse Awards as outstanding Trainer of the Year while topping the leader board in purse earnings in 2004, 2005, and 2006. His horse Super Saver won the 2010 Kentucky Derby, the first of his 24 horses entered in his career to win the Run for the Roses. He also won the 2007 Belmont Stakes with filly Rags to Riches and the 2013 Belmont Stakes with Palace Malice...
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Date of Birth26 June 1967
case champion himself horse position puts strong win
If he were to win the Sprint, I think he puts himself in position to make a strong case for not only horse of the year, but champion three-year-old.
carrying dangerous forward horse key relax speed
He's a pretty forward horse and the key is just really if they can relax just enough to make their speed dangerous and keep carrying it.
anyone bluegrass came cat comparison derby entry gone good hard horse johnny kentucky knows mile perfect stay training trains works
I don't want to get in the way of Johnny with his Kentucky Derby mounts. This was a particularly hard decision, because anyone who works or trains or is around Keyed Entry knows how good he is. You'd want to stay with a horse like that as long as possible. He's undefeated. He's training super. In a perfect world, Keyed Entry would already have gone two turns, so Johnny could have made a better comparison with Bluegrass Cat. Bluegrass Cat already has been a mile and an eighth, and he's already been a mile and a sixteenth this year. I think it came down to that.
matured mentally physically
He's matured physically and mentally and handles the distance. He's the whole package.
affected performance
How much it affected his performance I don't know.