My horse of the year scenarios

[miraja2]

COULD Student Council be receiving some "extra-special" medication? Yes, given the record of his trainer, that obviously has to be considered as one possibility.
But I think people that automatically assume he is just because he went from competing against allowance horses to beating "G1" and "G2" horses are forgetting something important. Right now, the line between top-level allowance horses and graded stakes horses is sometimes so blurry, I am not even sure it is there at all. It doesn't always require shady behavior for a so-called "allowance horse" to win some of these big stakes races, given the low quality of the fields.
It isn't like this horse suddenly became Man O' War. He has yet to break 2:05 in either of these last two races. But when you are racing against the AP Arrows of the sport, it just doesn't take a whole lot to win.