richiebee Wrote:
-------------------------------------------------------
> BBB:
>
> Respect your "hardboot" perspective, and I
> agree that they are "top shelf". Godolphin has won
> a lot of important races around the world, but I
> think Sheik Mo still wants a Ky Derby win.
>
> I think this Derby win will only be
> accomplished if Sheik Mo bites the bullet and
> gives his Derby crop to a North American trainer
> who brings the prospects up to the race using the
> traditional American preps; it also means that
> Sheik Mo probably can not insist that whoever
> trains for him train for him on a private basis.
>
> That being said, any "performance figure" given
> to Discreet Cat notwithstanding, I think he beat
> an absolutely unexceptional field in Dubai, the

> best runners in which may or may not have been
> drugged.
>


Slew O' Richie,

I see you read that Ian Jory complaint too. It does look like drugs were used in Dubai. Imagine that. After I read that article I was never going to bet that horse here. I hope they bring him in June.