Jerry,

I miss Soup - can you let him back on the board? Only kidding.

It's now our responsibility to keep some handicapping strings alive now that we will no longer have 20 Soup postings. Any chance of picking a track or a few races to discuss for Saturday?

Did anyone watch Jerkens' horse Greatness run 6.5 furlongs this past Saturday? This 3 year old making just his second start was about 2/5 of a second off the track record although he was running on what appeared to a be a speed favoring muddy track. Jerkens works these horses so hard that it seems a shame that this one might run his best races in conditional allowance races and never make it to a major stakes race. Jerry, if you had a 3 year old that ran a 2 in his first race would you point him towards a sprinting stakes race for his second start or would you run him in a non-winners of 1 allowance? I know that it also depends on what stakes are available. Just curious.