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Sometimes I think we give trainers too much credit, and/or are too keen to believe that they are smarter than the average bear, when they land a valuable prize. IMO, these things happen more often by accident than by design. Using RTW as an example, he ran in the National from a mark only 2lbs lower than his highest-ever chase mark. I doubt Mouse Morris figured that this would be the difference between winning and losing, and campaigned him to get his weight reduced by a bag of sugar.

[QUOTE="Grasshopper, post: 2565446, member: 65342"] Sometimes I think we give trainers too much credit, and/or are too keen to believe that they are smarter than the average bear, when they land a valuable prize. IMO, these things happen more often by accident than by design. Using RTW as an example, he ran in the National from a mark only 2lbs lower than his highest-ever chase mark. I doubt Mouse Morris figured that this would be the difference between winning and losing, and campaigned him to get his weight reduced by a bag of sugar. [/QUOTE]

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