Although I promised to stop posting on the drug issue, your belief or disbelief in it affects your handicapping.

I would like to see what SS's Travers' number was, because I thought he ran a more difficult route in winning and I assume it was solid, as a result. Putting aside questions about Grasshopper's quality, which is a new measure of SS's ability, the two of them did bury the rest of the field, the way they should have.

We know a lot more about SS now. We know he finishes in a questionable way when his challengers in the lane run on. It seems to me that AGS and or LR will give him a very hard time at Monmouth if drug strictures are not tough for the Breeders Cup. I don't think he can beat them if they have the amount of artificial encouragement I BELIEVE they were given in their recent races.

Also, TAP is likely to pull off a triple in the BC if he has a free hand.