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Originally Posted by JerseyJ
I am sorry I don't know exactly how much a jock agent makes...only thing as owners we do is accept who the trainer names on our horse and figure out how much we get as owners.
Show me where I said track announcers should be banned from betting on the races since it would give them a rooting interest. For crying out loud, that's not the issue here. The issue is that there is the POTENTIAL for a track announcer who holds a jock's book at his track to not do his job as the TRACK ANNOUNCER properly because he is looking for his jock's horse compared to calling the rest of the field.
It's not that god damn difficult to understand the point that the sensible people have been making in these last two threads, but apparently we aren't filled with rocket scientists here.
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I never said that you said track announcers should not be allowed to bet. I was asking you whether they should be banned from betting since having a bet would give them a rooting interest in a race. You say that there is a potential for a track announcer who is also an agent to be looking for his jock's horse. Couldn't the same thing happen if a track announcer had a bet on a race? The anouncer may be looking for the horse that he bet on.
I guess you didn't understand my point. My point is that plenty of track announcers all over the country bet. When they have a bet, they have a rooting interest in the race. If a track announcer is a jock's agent, then he has a rooting interest in the race. I don't see how the conflict of interest is any greater with the track announcer that is the jock's agent than the track announcer who has a bet on the race.