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This is trainer Todd Pletcher's eighth Eclipse Award and the fourth for jockey Irad Ortiz Jr., as the pair return to the stage to once again accept these respective honors. TODD PLETCHER It's not easy being Todd Pletcher. Not because it's difficult to employ a battalion of employees and run a vast operation across multiple jurisdictions. And not because he is graced with a power-packed group of runners that many of his contemporaries might offer their first borns to get even a single nugget from the expansive collection of equine...