Just to clarify a few things about the detention barns at NYRA:
If you are one minute late to the detention barns you are fined and scratched.
Everything is searched when you go in...All bags are emptied, even your electric cords are checked.
There are security cameras in place in all barns.
You can only bring unopened drinks into the holding area. At first they wouldn't allow gatorade but they allow that now.
You have to have someone with your horse pretty much the whole time. There needs to be someone there for the pre-race vet exam, Lasix, and if you are in a race that is selected fro pre-race CO-2 testing.
As for having NYRA staff handling your horses, No way in hell. The horses are removed from their familiar surroundings and moved into total chaos. There are people moving around, horses in and out. They need someone there that knows the horse and knows how to keep them calm before they race.
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Thats Madam bi*ch to you....
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