you can start billing me in installments
just saw a 3yo statebred msw race at oaklawn..purse big there for these and open msw (high 70's)..with purses so big there in the last 10 years you're starting to see more ky sires even though I'd still say well over 80% are arkansas
based sires..these are very cheap and often under 1k stud fee..just had a homebred fts win by sky mesa whose a long standing kentucky sire (15k)and above avg with firsters..the dam was a winner and produced 2 winners from as many starters and the dam production index was pretty good so they had to be at least one decent runner..
it's not right in front of me now but the horse paI'd around $24 and won easy..when I looked at the pp's trainer kenny smith,whose name I've seen for decades,was 2/94 with
debuters so I tossed him..workouts were on the slow side but i'm like you with that..doesn't matter much..the question is this and I think it's more or less rhetorical..
kenny has to know going in what he has and even though
overall he doesn't go for it first out he's capable when he has a horse he knows can get it done..in this case everybody (or at least a lot of folks)see his record with debuters and dismiss him..so it's not that these trainers with bad fts records are not capable of doing it..it's just normally they don't try unless they have something that they feel really has a good shot to do it..that make sense ?