Tim, I take it, is a reporter for the Union Tribune. Let me suggest that you call instead of exchanging emails. In terms of focus, what you might suggest is that he look at the details of what supposedly happened. When the van driver left the barn area at 3:15 a.m., he reportedly "identified" SC as a pony going to the farm. How exactly? Is this something that he simply said to a security guard as he left, or did he give the guard a copy of a bill of lading or some other documentation? It would be interesting to know what kind of documentation, if any, is usually required when a van driver leaves and/or arrives with a horse or horses. Assuming there is documentation, it would also be interesting to look at & compare the other horses which have been vanned off in the middle of the night, & how they did in their next race. Was SC the only horse being vanned? Did the security guard, who may or may not have been able to tell the difference between SC & a pony, actually look at the horse, or in any way question why someone would transport a pony in the middle of the night? Yesterday, Bill Finley reported that he had spoken to the van driver, who is saying that he decided to misidentify the horse on his own because he "didn't want people in the barn area to know" since if "word got out, more horses might have been entered in the race..." Huh? First of all, why is it that the van driver believed that correctly identifying SC would result in "word getting out" in the barn area? Secondly, & more importantly, why would he think that this would result in more horses being entered in the race? SC was being taken to a hyperbaric oxygen chamber, & could have been given any number of "treatments" while away from the barn area. If anything, one would think that there might be fewer horses entered if word got out that a horse left in the middle of the night & returned a few days before a major race. I have a completely speculative suspicion that what might have been going on is something that is never raised when the subject of discussion is performance enhancement, since everyone seems to assume that it must be the trainer or vet. Though not as often, sometimes it's the owner & the trainer & vet are the ones in the dark. Wygod's background & the fact that Canani has not been charged by the CHRB has me thinking that it just might have been the owner's idea that SC leave in the middle of the night for a "cutting edge" procedure that he didn't want to have to explain or justify to his "old school" trainer.