CtC:
Interesting comment about Pletcher selling carpet. That\'s not a reference to Gasper Moschera, who was doing just that before he wandered over to the racetrack and dominated NY racing for 8- 10 years, is it?
I have contended here numerous times in the past that Pletcher and Frankel would not be affected by drug free racing. They have continued to thrive at the highest levels of racing with the advent of supertesting and detention; they continue to get quality stock from wealthy owners, though I haven\'t seen too many Juddmonte runners from Frankel lately. I did not take issue with Rando\'s post, but to me BF and TAP are both horsemen, not merely trainers.
Sorry to repeat myself, but Pletcher and Frankel are among the leaders in race winning trainers each year, and as such their charges are subjected to more post race tests than their less prolific training contemporaries.
Chuckles, if you think the empires that TAP and BF have built are bad for racing, petition NYRA to give TAP 60 stalls TOTAL instead of 60 stalls at Belmont AND 60 at Saratoga. Tell Magna to give TAP 60 stalls TOTAL instead of 60 at the Gulfstream entertainment, retail and racing center AND 60 at Palm Meadows.
The reason some of the lesser trainers do not go ballistic over the large stall allocations to TAP is that they realize that if TAPs stalls were cut in half, his wealthy patrons would not take the horses TAP could no longer train to other trainers, rather they would just decrease their involvement in the sport, and that\'s probably not good for anybody.
Would rather not talk about medication issues, but the continued character assassinations of Pletcher and Frankel are irresponsible, and under current testing regimes, unwarranted.
