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Old 06-28-2008, 08:01 PM
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Originally Posted by parsixfarms
It would be nice if the folks running the Eclipse Awards enacted some rule that a trainer - and all horses trained by him - are ineligible for year-end honors if he served a suspension in a given year. Sort of like the rule that the NFL put in place after Shawn Merriman was selected for the Pro Bowl in the same year that he served a four game suspension (for steroids, if I recall correctly).
Yes, there should be something like this. I don't think you could declare ALL horses ineligible, but that would be an interesting suit.

Eric
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