NYT still dogging O'Neill

[tector]

Headline: "Records Show Triple Crown Contender Had History of Ailments"

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/07/11/sp...ords-show.html

[Danzig]

dogging the sport is more like it. they found a way to tie in the current big name in sports, his trainer, drugs and the upcoming congressional hearing. it's too bad that in all these years the sport didn't find a way to control itself, and now it's going to d.c. yeah, that'll end well.

[OldDog]

No doubt the local rag in my corner of the world will pick this up and run with it. They haven't run a racing article since the Belmont, but this one will fit their bill.

[pucknut]

read the comments after the article at your own risk your IQ will drop 20 points
wish the author had the sand to go to saratoga for a day then write that same drivel

[tector]

Originally Posted by Danzig

it's too bad that in all these years the sport didn't find a way to control itself, and now it's going to d.c. yeah, that'll end well.

100% correct, sir. The lack of serious self-regulation--and the resulting race to the bottom in standards--is coming home to roost. And as you say, D.C. will be a nightmare.

[geeker2]

Originally Posted by pucknut

read the comments after the article at your own risk your IQ will drop 20 points
wish the author had the sand to go to saratoga for a day then write that same drivel

OMG



Dave KCleveland, OH

Here's the pattern I've noticed: In the last 15 years, 8 horses win the first two legs of the Triple Crown, and for whatever reason fail to win Belmont.

One possible explanation for this: Winning the first 2 races means that a lot of casual betters who would normally not bet on horses at all place bets on those horses. When those horses lose, the bookmakers do very well.

[pweizer]

Originally Posted by tector

Headline: "Records Show Triple Crown Contender Had History of Ailments"

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/07/11/sp...ords-show.html

Show me any horse that doesn't have some aliments. This non-story is just silly.

Paul

[freddymo]

Got to love Drape..I would have thought the Times/Cuomo would have called off the dogs after they got Luck tossed off the air, Hayward fired, and the NYRA board re cast? I guess being there isn't any sports going on so they went duck hunting again?

[GenuineRisk]

Originally Posted by pweizer

Show me any athlete that doesn't have some aliments. This non-story is just silly.

Paul

FTFY

[Indian Charlie]

Originally Posted by Danzig

dogging the sport is more like it. they found a way to tie in the current big name in sports, his trainer, drugs and the upcoming congressional hearing. it's too bad that in all these years the sport didn't find a way to control itself, and now it's going to d.c. yeah, that'll end well.

Originally Posted by tector

100% correct, sir. The lack of serious self-regulation--and the resulting race to the bottom in standards--is coming home to roost. And as you say, D.C. will be a nightmare.

He, is a she.

[Cannon Shell]

http://www.bloodhorse.com/horse-raci...t-routine-care

[Round Pen]

OMG he was given the Powerful Pain Killer BUTE!!!!

Then after he Scratched from the Belmont I heard Doug Oneill took the Powerful Pain Killer
"TYLENOL" to ease his Headache

[pointman]

Must be a slow news day today. It is sad that Drape who likely knows better is passing this BS off in order to keep his job and that rag alive.

[Merlinsky]

What I think is hilarious is that you could tell people 'we have this medicine that can prevent ulcers in race horses' or 'we can protect horses from arthritis if only they were given this drug,' something like that, and these same freaks would be angrily calling for the use of it. I think we need to flank them. Trick them into advocating for the required use of some medication, then point out to them that it's been available all this time, and they've been trying to vilify it.

I know that we go on about how racing doesn't have anybody managing PR, but I'm curious. Are most people grumbling about it 'in house' (to other racing fans or people working in the sport), shaking their fists at the NY Times with the occasional sternly worded letter or threat of lawsuit (but not writing op-eds to them or letters to the editor), and reading or writing about it in racing publications vs. in ones read by average non-racing people?

I'm sure people more familiar with the political situation in NY would know more about how that's affecting this with Cuomo or the NY Times, but sometimes I wonder if anybody at the Times is PETA sympathetic. I think there's some sort of agenda we're not seeing.

[Cannon Shell]

Originally Posted by pointman

Must be a slow news day today. It is sad that Drape who likely knows better is passing this BS off in order to keep his job and that rag alive.

I'm not sure that Drape does know better.

I do agree that this entire scandal was cooked up (with some help from the agenda pushers in this business) to promote himself in the face of layoffs in the newspaper business. I mean on the list of people to get cut, the sports dep't probably is axing the horseracing/high school sports guy first. He brought that Walt guy in to try to give credibility to the stories as if it wasn't just the sad editorial/op-ed crap that it really is.

[TouchOfGrey]

As seen on NBC's Nightly News yesterday:

Horse racing controversy raises questions