Lanni has found a litany of champions-many for his great friend and collaborator, Bob Baffert, from Arrogate to Authentic; but also plenty for other barns, lately including Canadian champion Moira and a fresh name on the Derby trail in Rocket Can (Into Mischief). So, okay, he can sign big dockets nowadays. As we’ll see, however, he still loves dredging the second week of the September Sale; and still turns up bargains anyone could have had. Competitors don’t talk of Lanni with envy. They talk with immense respect; almost as though he were some kind of savant, deploying intuitions that can’t be learned or articulated. But that won’t stop us asking him how they evolved.
