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Saffie is 22% lifetime and was at 21% last year. His overall results are, in my opinion, suspicious. I tend to agree with Paulbenny that these hot trainers often fail to reproduce the same results when they ship. Although I do think that Saffie had some success with his NYRA horses last year. I can't find individual stats on that.
Just to compare, I consider Bill Mott to be a legitimate horseman. If you look over his win percentages going all the way back to and starting from 2008 - in the last 15 years, his win percentage is 16% and it's never been higher than 18%. That's good but not unusual, especially considering the fact that Mott gets very good stock to train.
Saffie, on the other hand, has been over 20% for the last 7 years with an average of over 22%. I guess you could say that his win percentage is boosted by the ability to drop horses in claiming price.
That being said, I don't believe that Saffie has a terrible record of drug violations. He had a horse win a $100,000 stakes race at Monmouth dq'd after a class 4 violation which cost him $1,000 fine. But I'm not sure of his overall record.
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