IEAH attempts to take the high road...

[parsixfarms]

Originally Posted by Cannon Shell

Waste of time. Too large of a project to police. Plus how would you tell what is legit and what isnt or which horse is which? If there are 1500 stalls at Belmont would you have 1500 monitors or people to watch the tapes? What there should be in real investigators. I ask you as a lawyer, how far do you think they could go before you get into privacy issues?

I don't think there is any privacy issue; no reasonable expectation of privacy exists on an otherwise public piece property. Furthermore, I would think that NYRA, for example, could get around any possible privacy concerns by making the trainer consent to such surveillance as part of the stall application.

I realize some of the practical issues that you raise, but I think some people might think twice about doing certain things if they thought someone "was watching." Furthermore, I think that there are some trainers that we can both agree don't need to be as closely monitored as others, so it's probably not like you have to watch all 1500 horses all the time. But if there are suspicions of shenanigans, you do have somewhere to start.