MO,

You are a good handicapper and your opinion carries weight. This Thunder Gulch story is puzzling, especially now that Supertrainer drugs and Ramsey's antics and Frankel's deals and Wygod's evasions and Mullins covert doings and the CHRB's ostensible "incompetence" paint a picture of tampering with races and deceiving the public. Its hard enough to cash a bet on legitimate trainer and form patterns without having to figure out the frauds.

Without contesting you're point, this is a hard one to prove it though. Tgraph folks were all over Thunder Gulch on pattern. However one factors Thunder Gulch's Derby win, he also won the Belmont and Travers and sired a Belmont winner in Point Given. Which is not to say you are in any way mistaken on the Derby event.

http://www.drf.com/tc/trail/2004/derbywinners.pdf



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