Personally, I believe the moisture content riddle is the last piece of the puzzle. I think with accurate moisture content in hand for the respective tracks you will be able to see how the times in a 5,000 claiming race are impacted by varying degrees of moisture in the track. To my knowledge your T-Graph is the only entity that has stated how important this is. I think you're "break off" positions and generally reliable figs are because you are solidly on the trail of the last great variable in accurate performance figures.

I have to say I suspected you made the FOY 2.5 to 3 points faster than the other races. By that statement I'm assuming you mean that you adjusted the figs up for the entrants and that without the adjustment they would have been assigned a performance figure 2.5 points faster than what they were given, is that correct? In other words without the adjustment for race 11 RTF would have had a negative 3.

Sounds like you had Stake and U.K. Trick hooked up. Pletcher has the golden touch right now. When a trainer is on a day like he was Derby Day, you can't leave him go when his horse on P.P.s looks competitive. I'm still kicking myself for not having Newfoundland in the Skip Away. I was on Supah Blitz...lol I bad mouthed him here and I remember thinking "you can't bet on that horse, you mouthed off bad about him"...lol But back to the subject, U.K. ran good, if she gets a bit faster or gets a break like Friends Lake got she'll win that Black Type.

I want to hear the Sonny Bruno story that can't be told. :)