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Originally Posted by Gander
They could sneak money to the trainers in the form of betting vouchers seeing as thats where most of most trainer's money goes anyways. Maybe Blasi sends Asmussen a Christmas Card with 20K betting voucher in it. He gets it and does a little dance and gets in his Mercedes and heads to the track incognito and drops a few grand down on one of his 5/1 shots he knows can fly to the moon and back...
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On the West coast, there are very few trainers that are big bettors. I would say that maybe 5% of the trainers are big bettors if even that. On the east coast I think the number is quite a bit higher, but I still don't think it's anywhere as high as you think. I would be very surprised if more than 15-20% of the trainers are big bettors. I'm classifying a big bet as anything over $1,000.
Maybe Cannon Shell could shed some light on this. Cannon can tell us what his estimation would be on the percentage of trainers at the tracks he trains at that will make $1,000 bets on their horses.