Declan's Moon...Turf on Thursday

[Rupert Pupkin]

Originally Posted by Indian Charlie

It wouldn't be the first time a reporter messed things up, but after years of hearing and reading Ellis quotes, it seems entirely plausible to me that the reporter got it right.

Unless Rupert (and I respect his opinion more than most people's on here) was a witness, my guess is that Ellis indeed did say what was attributed to him and then blamed the reporter later.

I've never talkd to Ron about the issue and I didn't even know about it until I read it on here. But I knew it wasn't true because I talk to the guy practically every day and we used to talk about Declan's Moon all the time and he never mentioned the Strub Series. So when I heard the story on this board, I asked to see the article because I knew there was no way it was true. I read the article and nowhere in the article did Ellis mention the Strub Series or any of the races in the Strub Series. The only thing he said is, We're point the horse to the big races at Santa Anita." He was referring to the San Antonio, Santa Anita Handicap, etc.