For most big winners there course is planed at the start of the season and the game plan is usually stuck by. Maybe no more than 4 races used as prep for the big one When they go to the big one theres not a lot been taken out of them there pretty fresh Take the champion racehorse they never run more than 3to 4 races a year When the old plodder is maybe raced twice a month and never wins Not many birds can do it week in and week out Maybe thats how we end up with plodders