Here's my thinking on a situation like this-- I don't believe that if a horse was getting something a trainer would go out of his way to ship 3,000 miles to run without it. It's not always the trainer's choice, but they can usually find a way to get out of it (by total coincidence, Da Hoss got a high white blood cell count a couple of times when I wanted to run in a stake that Dickenson didn't. That stopped after farm manager Rich Decker asked to see the vet report).

McGaughlin hasn't been doing so well recently, for whatever reason. See last 90 days.

It will be really great when we don't have to guess what we don't know.