Overlooked A Variable

KCMO as the center of the North American part of the universe today as the MLB All Star game is here tonight at Kaufman Stadium.  Above, City Hall with a giant All Star Game banner--left click on the photo and u'll see it.  This is the City Hall that Harry Truman built back in the 1930s. Abe Lincoln there in the foreground.

I was driving along a busy highway last eve when it hit me that I missed a major variable of performance.  What caught my attention was the All Star Game, baseball, and the consistent mantra of couch potato beer bellies that managers in baseball fail to matter, that at most a manager can change the the result of 5 or6 games a year with his managerial skill--one hears this same home spun philosophy over and over and over--winning/losing, it's all on the players/manager has nothing to do with it.  Most of what u see on the baseball boards therefore are proposed trades.  Everybody we've got is crap,and we'd be successful if only we had an owner that would spend more money and a GM with enough savvy to bring in another team's talent.  By these folks the grass is always greener somewhere else.

Which is what I'd overlooked in the variables,  indeed talent for our race horse matters.  Some are just naturally fast and we're way ahead of the curve if we can get one of those speed balls into our stable. This has to do with horse acquisition/breeding and the knowledge and skill we show at Keeneland and in our back yards.  And so, Edit "The List":

Animal Husbandry 
Talent
Athletic Conditioning For Performance And Injury Prevention
Race Strategy
Injury Prevention--a category unto itself
Misc.