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Originally Posted by Danzig
no it wouldn't....and how many nails does a coffin take anyway??  |
You really think that the sport wouldn't take a tremendous hit? You would have a horse that was juiced up (I'm not saying he was and Im not saying it never has happened) win the derby and pay balloons, be DQ'd and the only money that would change hands is reguarding purse money. What about all the bets, tickets and potential life changing scores for the people that would have cashed if the race was legit. I really believe that any intergrity (or at least what the sport has left) would absolutley vanish. People would look at the sport as a rigged game, kind of the way I look at boxing, jai alai and harness racing at certain tracks. People will think it's a complete sham.
Thinking about it, I guess the die-hards would still wager and watch no matter what. But I'm talking about the novice/on the fence fans that go to the track couple times a year and even just bet the major races type. This sport needs to broaden it's fan base. A DQ here could be the thing that drives people away from racing. It would be more bad press for a sport that doesn't need it. It's a hard enough game to win when it's a level field and now they will realize that the field isn't so level.