1-- What's Watchmaker going to have to talk about next year? Not only is "more than 4 weeks" shot, but if Calder had run that turf stake 1 day earlier, so is "only two starts at three".

2-- We'll post the figures later this week, but the winner is probably going to get a big negative. Might be worth making a list of the other 3yos this year that have run a negative figure so far this year, and what happened to them after that. Off the top of my head, the only spring 3yo I can remember handling a negative figure and going on about his business is Smarty Jones, though I haven't spent a lot of time on this and could be wrong.

3-- Barbaro had a good 3yo top, and a very good pattern for a new top-- at 15 or 20 to one he maybe could have been keyed. Problem is, he went in slower than several and around the same as a bunch, no matter whose figures you used. Which means he was no value at the price-- before the race. Pretty easy now.

4-- CTC-- you should listen to the intro seminar, the part about weight-- your comment about BGC indicates you don't understand how we apply it.

Going forward, you stop posting the self-indulgent intentionally annoying stuff, and the guys attacking CTC, while I sympathize, you knock it off too. I'm taking down any more of that stuff on both sides.