Pletchers Demise

While I can't knock his success rate, I have a hard time canonized Todd Pletcher.

I mean, do you really buy his explanation/excuse over three of his runners DYING in a brief period shortly after far improved lifetime best off-the-chart #s? That "patch of grass" explanation took a lot of balls, but when you have Pletcher's high-powered and high-profile list of owners(who also pretty much control the racing organizations), I guess you can get by with pretty much anything.

Remember--Pletcher still has a very weakly appealed drug suspension currently over his head. I'm sure he will serve it from Dec.-Feb., when the racing world is in it's annual lull.

No defense for Asmussen, who will be publicly executed in print(Sunday), but why him alone, while Pletcher,Frankel and Dutrow run free?

The fact that Dutrow and Pletcher ran 1-2 in the BC Classic last year should tell you all you need to know about what a trainer must do to get to the top of the heap.

JMO