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Originally Posted by Calzone Lord
I think you're overestimating a lot of these guys as handicappers and bettors.
The list of suspicous trainers out there goes well beyond Jamie Ness. I wrote a very rough and tumble column about Stephanie Beattie when she gave me the chance because she had a bunch of overages here.
General newspaper coverage of horse racing simply isn't very good anymore. I'm only being paid to also write occasional columns here because the general sports guys want no part of attempting to cover horse racing... even though a few of the writers do show up at the track quite a bit. Guys like Beyer, Crist, and Moss did great work covering horse racing for newspapers in the 80's.
As for the guys who write for the Daily Racing Form -- they take themselves very seriously. Other than Jay Hovdey anyway, but he does absolute clown work most of the time and wastes his writing ability.
It's not 1905 anymore, the DRF writers aren't going to pin their ears back and take people on and call people out anymore. They are a friendly and very kind bunch.
Bloodhorse and Thoroughbred Times every bit the same.
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So, who does the $hit work and holds these guys accountable? Obviously, I'm on a rampage two days after the fact but what ear do I have? Maybe 102 people might read what I write, 57 of which will simply dismiss me as a whiner, while the another 30 will worship Ness and accept what he does while getting beat 70% of the time on their 2/5 tickets.
Who does the $hit work? The media used to dig stuff like this, but not this current bunch of cowards we have in the racing media.....