I would point out that Plech started the meet very well. He is now winning at a rate of approximately 11%

He won some significant Stakes early. Most notably the Whitney and has tailed off markedly.

This is a timely thread in regard to another running that notes there is not much which separate horses in respective classes. If you could put a percentage on the difference in effort for two horses that ran four lengths apart at 9 furlongs it very well may be a 2 or 3 percent points difference in ability/effort. Increasing the effectiveness of any particular horse against contemporaries that have 150 years of industry common knowledge and as many as 40 more years actual training experience is not an easy task if one plays by the rules.

If he truly has the best horses and best people and is the most knowledgeable man in the game, this slump could not occur. Plech is being impacted by things behind the scenes influencing his behavior. Without the edge that he has had, Plech with his level of experience and organizational emphasis would be the 10 percent trainer he is currently hitting at Saratoga.

CtMC

Miff Wrote:
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> Raggie Richie from left field tells me that the
> Rags people do not think that Pletchers 100
> entrants are under performing ON THE WHOLE. What
> could they possibly be looking at for the last 5
> weeks with just a few exceptions. It's the talk of
> the SPA how poorly TAP runners are performing with
> TAP himself confiding to many that he is
> perplexed.
>
>
> Must be the sometimes voodoo projection
> methodology that they are misreading. There isn't
> a person of knowledge in this game that has not
> seen runner after runner from TAP perform totally
> "Empty"
>
>
> Mike