Four times, Chad Brown has won the Eclipse Award for outstanding trainer. Four times during the last six calendar years, trainer Alice Cohn has saddled a winner. Two of those victories have come via a 4-year-old Gun Runner gelding named Point Proven, who entered the mom-and-pop stable Cohn runs with her head groom and life partner Eddie Madary late last spring. And the longshot Point Proven might have a chance to take down the Brown-trained favorite I’m Very Busy on Saturday at Fair Grounds in the Grade 2, $300,000 Muniz Memorial Stakes. Point Proven only looks mildly competitive through his running lines on the past performance pages but dig a little deeper to uncover his status as a plausible player in the Muniz, a 1 1/8-mile grass race that lured 13 entrants. Drawn outside the other dozen is I’m Very Busy, who will be asked to overcome a lousy draw at a price likely shorter than his listed 4-1 as the tepid morning-line favorite. I’m Very Busy, also a 4-year-old, exits a fine second-place finish with a less-than-ideal trip in the Grade 1 Pegasus World Cup Turf, the best race of his career, where he was defeated only by the top-class filly Warm Heart, who got a perfect trip. With Brown at the controls and Irad Ortiz Jr. in the irons, it’s a good bet I’m Very Busy goes a more defined favorite than the morning line suggests. “I’m hoping for a couple scratches,” Brown said. “That’s a very challenging post.” :: Get the Inside Track with the FREE DRF Morning Line Email Newsletter. Subscribe now.  Brown, who also sends out fringe contender Adhamo, mentioned that the Muniz, an important race on its own, is a prep for the Grade 1 Old Forester Turf Classic. Brown also said I’m Very Busy has “been showing us in the morning that he made that big jump from 3 to 4,” but the colt, by Cloud Computing, still has something to prove. He has won but twice in eight starts, and the Pegasus was far and away a career best. Point Proven, meanwhile, has a better draw in post 8 under Corey Lanerie and enters in roaring form. In November, he was a troubled third in a second-level turf allowance race before finishing a fast-closing third as the best horse in the age-restricted Woodchopper, where Point Proven nearly was dropped going into the far turn. Back on Jan. 20 in a second-level allowance, Point Proven whipped through his final quarter-mile in 22.18 seconds while unable to run down perfect-trip winner Chasing the Crown, a capable miler. Point Proven, a grass horse at heart, has been going so well he easily won an off-turf allowance race Feb. 17, rallying from last to first. The gelding on performance and pedigree should hit a peak in his first try over nine furlongs. Mark Casse runs three, among them Strong Quality, who set the pace and finished second last month in the Fair Grounds Stakes. That race was run over wet turf, and the course is nearly certain to be less than firm Saturday. Strong Quality has solid credentials, but the Casse-trained Webslinger is a better horse. He, too, exits the Pegasus Turf, where I’m Very Busy beat him to a spot in upper stretch, forcing Webslinger to check hard and costing him any chance at victory. Webslinger recovered and finished strongly for sixth, though his lack of positional pace often leads to tough trips. “He was full of run last time. When he runs his race and has a little luck, he’s as good as any turf horse in North America,” Casse said. Even unluckier than Webslinger was the Casse-trained Palazzi, stopped cold in the Fair Grounds Stakes as he tried to hit an upper-stretch hole. Palazzi wound up last of 11 but is a more appealing play than the top three finishers in the Fair Grounds – Beatbox, Strong Quality, and Johny’s Fireball – all back for the Muniz after finishing a half-length apart last month. Irish Aces, fifth as the surprising favorite Feb. 3 in the Tampa Bay Stakes, can improve upon that performance if he settles better. Bettors will mainly settle on I’m Very Busy. It could pay to look elsewhere. – additional reporting by David Grening :: Want to learn more about handicapping and wagering? Check out DRF's Handicapping 101 and Wagering 101 pages.