Silver Charm wrote:

> If I had a large Plantation Stud Farm, I swear I would go back
> to breeding stamina mares to stamina sires and would win maybe
> the next 10 consecutive Derby's.

If the implication is that drugs are out of the picture I would agree. However, it might be hasty yet to conclude they were absent from this years race.

>
> All of this speed Breeding came home to roost this year,
> Finally.
>
> Smarty was the rare exception to the rule last year and while
> Funny Cide is game and fun to root for, he developed early and
> has not much since his Derby win. It is beginning to take
> effect.

Funny is bred very well on his female side and he might have been the only member of that crop not running on medications.

> The short sighted mentallity of Breeding speed to speed so the
> horse comes out running in April of his two year old training
> sale breeze is ruining the bred.


> That is back-to-back Triple Crown Races where the winner
> received a 100 Beyer. Crawling come home fractions are more
> common.

If Beyer said the Belmont was a 100 he's full of it.

Look at all the preps. The time has come to move the
> Derby distance to 1 mile and 1/8 and the Belmont to 1 mile and
> 1/4.

Thats was once the geriatric argument of Lukas before he figured out how to train for a Belmont Stakes. The day they shorten the TC races or change their spacing is the day I concentrate on MLB.