Below is a nice archived article about Plech's early years. Some refer to those times as "The Learning Years". I refer to them as "Pre & Post Allday".

Plech went out on his own in 1996. In 2000 he burst upon the Derby Scene with 4 horses that had run fast preps. (Fast for that era, though clearly not as fast as Plech Triple Crown Preppers run now.)

I always get a tremendous chuckle out of the statements that Allday and Plech make about how good horses are what drives their success. There can be no doubt that good and talented horses are essential to success, but what they always fail to add is that performance enhancing medications can take good and talented horses into otherwise unobtainable performance realms.

There is another factor with using performance enhancing drugs. I learned this concept from Thorograph in the pre "Allday Era". But the Allday Era reinforced the concept so forcefully, that for me at least it is now a given:

"With the brittle nature of today's speed bred horse, medicated efforts to run faster and/or further impact the recovery time of the medicated horse and unsound horses artificially asked to run faster than the are biologically constituted will experience the "effects" of those efforts."

The above is why the "Modern Plech" (2000-Present) typically likes to give his horses large blocks of time between races. Though schedules conflict and he can't always do so.

Plech and Allday will participate in public forums now and then. Racing chats, Radio chats. I know what they are doing and when they began doing it, but if the folks here are genuinely curious and not just argumentative call in and ask the critical questions. For me, they would be rhetorical because questions can be answered by implication.

http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/more/horseracing/2000/triplecrown/kentucky/news/2000/04/30/ky_derby_adv_ap/

CtMC