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Originally Posted by SentToStud
What about current or future hall of famers like Pletcher, Zito and Mandella?
Where do you draw that line?
As long as there is competition for money, people will work the edges to gain an advantage. You break the rules and get caught, you get fined and/or suspended.
If you have a beef that the penalties are too soft, why not campaign to make them tougher?
To a great extent the furor over Dutrow is a joke. He's doing his days and paying his fine, isn't he? To say he's "different" is wrong. He's NO different than the others who get fined and suspended aside from perhaps not being an overly penitent person.
Dutrow, for his faults, can flat out train a racehorse. A year ago people would point at him and Allday and claim it was the vet who moved his horses up. Well, he fired the vet a year ago and is doing ok. And Allday, aside from his outburst, is still a great vet.
Dutrow took Kip DeVille over from a guy named Netherland and moved him up. That makes him a criminal? Good trainers move up horses. It's not a crime.
Chuck Simon moved up that filly up 15-20 lengths in a few months. He's a good trainer. That's what is supposed to happen when a good trainer with a sharp eye takes a young horse from an average-to-poor trainer. They often move up.
I'm curious to know if Allday has done any work with Sumoneluveyou?
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i do think penalties should be tougher. i also think that repeat offenders should be shown the door. i know good trainers can move up a horse, and i know that not all moves up are due to shady doings. but proven cheaters, especially when they are proven time and again, should not get the same 15 days as a first time offender. or an offender on a lesser charge.
they should have maybe an a, b, c category. X amount of c's would be equal to a lesser amount of b violations, with a being the worst. rack up enough letters to make a bowl of alphabet soup, and your license is denied. period.
why should biancone, who acts oh so hurt and offended, be able to rack up at least three different violations this year alone, with no expectations of anything other than a bit of time away??