Ah, Chuck, seems like you are wandering in the desert, or maybe the first turn
of the Mellon Turf Course up at the Spa...

In your single minded quest to discredit TAP, you are kicking up clouds of dust
which are not to be mistaken for the smoke from a non- existent fire. I think
your best chance at discrediting the man would be to continue to investigate
the die off of 2002.

"Our Todd is an awesome Todd"

Saturday at Monmouth, in the graded Red Bank Handicap at 1 mile on the lawn, Icy
Atlantic equaled the Monmouth course record for one mile on the turf. IA beat a
nondescript field, but did so with some panache. After 3/4s, IA was seventh
(last), about six lengths out of it, and did only what he needed to do to win
under Joe Bravo (23.31, 46.27, 1:09.08, 1:32.42). Though I never trust turf
course teletimers, those are impressive last 1/2, last 1/4 turf fractions, no?
And looking at the other turf routes on the day at Mth (which were contested by
much cheaper runners) this performance may come up very fast after various
adjustments are made by the people who make such adjustments.

Lawyer Ron, Wait a While and Icy Atlantic all with tremendous performances in
the last 5 weeks. Those races by those runners, all of which will figure to be
prominent at Monmouth at the end of October, is probably a bigger story than
TAP's overall 10% strike rate at a meet which was unfortunately dominated by
races for cheap turf horses and NYB maidens running at abbreviated distances.

I think your quest to discredit TAP, outside of your presentation of the die
off, is running on fuel which is leanly blended fact wise, yet I am certain that
you will continue.

"Still the searcher/
must ride the dark horse/
racing alone in his fright"

N. Young (no question about "doping" there)