Street Sense Wrote:
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> The biggest duck in racing is Coolmore and those
> associated with Coolmore. Tabor was banned for
> life back in the 70s for paying off jockeys.
> Being a bigwig, he got the life ban reduced to a
> few years. Coolmore's jockey in Europe is
> currently indicted and going to trial any day now
> for race-fixing. One of their trainers in the
> U.S. (Biancone) was banned for life from Hong Kong
> and has been caught with highly illegal substances
> and from what I hear, will be getting a
> substantial if not life ban from the Kentucky
> Racing Commission soon. These are all
> indisputable FACTS.


After saddling 3 non winning entrants on this past Sunday's Belmont card, Todd
Pletcher is 1/16 for the first 2 weeks of the Belmont meet. Add this to TAP's
Saratoga 13/125 slate, and some simple "ciphering" shows the TAP barn is 14/141
for the period 7/25- 9/16. That is just slightly less than a 10% strike rate.

I believe that the Biancobra barn was raided on June 22. I do not keep accurate
records. What was the record of TAP's barn between 6/22 and 7/25?

I have too much respect for the scientific method to state, without facts, that
TAP was taking an edge and stopped abruptly sometime around the end of June, co-
inciding with L'Affaire Biancone. And TAP deserves the benefit of the doubt, the
benefit of being presumed innocent, because his record has been untarnished but
for one positive which I will call harmless for the sake of argument.

In the interest of the scientific method, and to balance out a lot of the rumor
and innuendo tolerated on this board out of our host's respect for free speech,
I will initiate a thread entitled "Reasons (Scientific Method)"

>
> THen we have rumors/opinion. Another of
> Coolmore's trainers (Pletcher) is suspected by
> many to not be clean. That trainer uses as a vet
> (Allday) the man considered to be the current day
> Harthill. Many trainers, owners, and press people
> believe that this year's Belmont was fixed by
> Tabor and his two jocks in the race. Then there's
> the Green Monkey debacle where their sales fraud
> came back to bite them.
>
> No bad loser here. Just tired of racing not
> getting the ducks out of racing. It doesn't take
> any real genius here to catch these guys and get
> rid of them, just the will to do it.