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Tony is indeed alive and well and did attend both major sales this year and did purchase more than a few. Like those before him, his rise to prominence happened when he didn't have issues like buying and running a farm and all the nonsense outside just training horses. Has he made money for 90% of his investors, that's a big no. But who really cares if Myron and company lose their collective millions and Tony makes a decent living? Tony is good to his horses and staff and deserved the opportunity that was afforded him. Very few horsemen can go pick out value from the yearling sales year in and year out.
So it's the randomness of picking out good horses every year and personal grief and nothing to do with all the trouble he's been in pushing the envelope and getting popped and suspended over the past 5 years?
Tony is not done. He won't be the force he once was and won't have the backing he once did. Like him or not, there's no denying that he is absolutely on a bad run. It's exacerbated by the fact that his clients are: getting older, downsizing, buying less (yes, with some of them because they have not done well in recent years), breeding more and not buying, and so on. Look at his clients. Some of you may know them. Look at his clients who are breeders, including Myron, who was never playing with all of his own money. It all comes down to.....he simply has not been producing results in recent years. His owners aren't making money, and neither is he. He certainly won't have the horsepower he once had, but he'll downsize, get rid of overhead, and will rebuild, albeit it on a smaller scale.It's happening to other trainers as well. Not anywhere near to the same extent, but it's happening.
