Billy Reed on Hancock's CDI departure
 

Billy Reed has been about as independant a voice as there has ever been in racing media...


Hancock Quit for A Number of Good Reasons

June 25th, 2008
by Billy Reed

If you believe Seth Hancock quit the Churchill Downs board of directors simply to “move on and embrace new challenges,” as his official statement said, then you don’t know much about Hancock’s values, his family’s history, or the bottom-line mentality of the track’s current administration.

Hancock, president of the world-famous Claiborne Farm and a Churchill director for 35 years, believes that racing is a sport more than a business. He’s the son and grandson of horsemen who had much to do with building and creating Kentucky’s signature industry, thoroughbred racing and breeding.

The suspicion here is that he quit the board as a form of protest against the current administration’s cold and heartless pursuit of the almighty dollar. He probably got tired of going to board meetings and never hearing a word about horses. He probably got sick of empty suits who view Churchill as a profit center more than a hallowed place where humans and horses fulfill their destinies.

FULL: http://billyreedsays.com/2008/06/25/...sons/#more-399

OOOOOOOOO!!!!!:tro:

I thought myself exactly what he wrote about the Hancock resignation. Very odd timing. i thought the only way anyone ever left one of those boards was to croak.

Of course Billy also thought the Belmont was fixed by a rogue vet...

Someone tell him harthill is dead.