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Originally Posted by Sightseek
Sorry Steve, you're being a bit unfair here....
Pletcher said that he schooled Quality Road in the gate several times, hoping that something like this would happen during those sessions so they could address the problem, but he schooled fine. You can prepare all you want, but a number of things can upset a horse...
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He didn't school at Santa Anita with the gate crew that was going to be handling him for the first time. Schooling him at Belmont three times is meaningless. It's new situations that 'challenge' a problem horse. But Todd knows best... After all, he's intimately familiar with all 386 horses under his supervision.
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