>>The 60 day suspension Pletcher recently served for doping horses at Saratoga two years ago was not a myth.

Pletcher was accused of one horse having a measured level of a commonly used joint-block agent, a level that is known not to be therapeutic and could not have affected the level of performance of that horse; a measured level that, by the time of his appeal, had been lowered by the governing body to below the level of Pletcher's found positive. I believe he got 45 days, not 60.

Drug abuse in racing is a huge problem. The above case isn't even a blip on the radar screen of importance.

The way many posters on this board are ignoring those trainers with repeated positives, of more significant and truely performance-altering drugs, in favor of going after one who repeatedly, in many jurisdictions, tests clean, is silly.

No, wait ... the more ludicrous thing is a person with no obvious demonstrated medical or pharmacologic knowledge, with zero intimate or factual knowledge of the cases in question, deigning to perform complete autopsies, including cause of death, off of a set of handicapping sheets, and publishing his findings here on this board.

No, wait ... the most ludicrous thing is that people listen to him.

Maybe someday the people on this board would like to start to contribute to fighting the abuse of drugs in racing, in some sort of positive way?