Hi Bob,

Wouldn't Pletchers less than stellar results on big days 0 for 37(considering his massive high class stable) indicate that he is not a cheat? I would be careful to judge guys by nanogram contaminations or between race legal stuff that did not clear.Shakes,blood dope and super pain meds are the real move up drugs.

If you study the TG figs for most of Pletchers runners, it does not appear to add up to drugs.Pletchers horses burst on the scene from the 2yr training sales, run big and then mostly show very little development.Now lets say you look at horses taken over for the first time by say Rick Dutrow(to name one), you will see gigantic move ups regardless of who the previous trainer was.

Pletcher has 200 horses and most have big breeding or fast training sale splits. I think any good trainer could get the same results as TAP with the same stock without using illegal stuff.

Mike