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Originally Posted by philcski
That was Saratoga almost 9 months ago.... and that horse was yet another in the line of impossible to figure NYB turf racing. Anybody that watches NYRA regularly knows that most of these horses aren't very good, so they beat each other up, sometimes with headscratching results. Honestly I think he was more surprised than anyone, I saw him a couple days before that and he said flat out, the horse had issues and had no shot [and he looked it on recent form, even though he had run a few decent turf races in the past], and when i sent him a congratulatory text he said he was more shocked than the crowd. It was the first race he'd won at Saratoga in like 8 years or something. More than likely it was something on the inner, based on the timing of the penalty handown.
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The action by the New York Racing Com. was handled horribly especially when someone is giving interviews on the subject to high profile columnists with the DRF.
The game already is thought of by far too many as a simmering cesspool of corruption and back door prearranged results without another set of half disclosed reasons to question the legitimacy of fair racing and wagering at another major track in this country.
The Tampa/Delaware/Great Lakes jockey scandal was the last half story to make a horse player question whether the criminals were the jocks or the track administration that closed business on a half a dozen well known pilots of horse flesh with nary a criminal charge of conspiracy or fraud. The damage to the game and the families of those men was in itself a felony yet charged or settled.
If there was a crime here in New York or through a wagering outlet file it or shut the (blank) up. I am sick of these cowards with loose mouths giving interviews to national media to do their dirty work and ruin a reputation about supposed wrongs that are not handled by the judicial system.
If the track admin or racing commission chooses to hide behind the "private business" shield for despicable but legal acts that cast guilt on a trainer with no due process then have the decency to do so quietly without the cowardly need to gather the court of public opinion to their side because they have a forum at the DRF few can afford.
This story weakens the game and the people who make a living at it who do an honest business for an honest wage and New York Racing should be appalled by this latest circus and it's contribution to why racing is thought of as having the credibility of wrestling.