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Originally Posted by ultracapper
He was running one strange operation when he was last in SoCal. Basically he was playing second fiddle to Jorge Gutierrez with Ben Warren's stable of runners. It looked like he was buying Warren's castoffs under his asst trainer, Sam Alverez's, name. He was running 15 or 20 starters a month with minimal, and I mean very minimal, success.
You couldn't help route for him though. You knew he was taking care of those bottom level runners as well as any trainer was taking care of his superstars.
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He refused to dope. His winning percentage went back up the last couple of years after testing got better.