Quote:
|
Originally Posted by The Indomitable DrugS
I would have thought that Paulick would be sympathetic to someone like a Mike Gill.
I was subjected to having to listen to otherwise polite and courteous racing writers tell me all about how Paulick is this tremendously horrible person.
I just nodded and said "yeah?" over and over. Few things are less interesting than hearing people info-whoring and whisper campaigning to me against someone I don't know and didn't bring up.
Nothing anyone says about Gill will influence how I view him.
He does the same type of stuff others do ... and he's the one who gets rabidly vilified.
It's not hard to figure out why so many horsemen have an agenda against him. I get why the horsey lovers hate him... but I don't think they really get the low level claiming game.
What's to like about Gill? Pretty much nothing. He's a dopey action fiend .. and that's about the nicest thing to say about him.
Paulick is doing great work to get his site traffic ... but this is not a "closer look at Gill's racing operation" ... it's nothing more than a 'Gill's a bad guy Pile-On-Athon.'
|
So Tom Clifton is just lying here?
http://www.paulickreport.com/blog/gi...aulick-report/
“We did it for safety concerns,” jockey Tom Clifton was quoted as saying by the Thoroughbred Times. “We’ve got horses left and right snapping legs off in front of us, and every time it happens, three or four guys behind him go down, too. At what point do you say, ‘Listen, this is getting out of control.’ That’s why we did it, strictly as a safety concern. I have nothing against Michael Gill. I’ve ridden races for him before. I’m just getting tired of watching my fellow riders and horses go down that don’t deserve to.”
Your posts are just another example of you just putting your oversized blinkers on, and not trying to hear from all sides or take in viable information on this topic. Just label those who have different opinions "horsey lovers," or people having an "agenda against him," and keep throwing up PP’s from other horses, and labeling those who do not agree with you. If only your arguments were as adept as your research of PP’s and two year old in training sales, I might take what you say a little more seriously on this topic.
If Gill was just an overzealous owner, trying to rack up wins playing the nickel claimer game, I do not believe he would have so many problems at his doorstep. If a jockey colony, numerous race track administrations, racing authorities, other owners, other trainers, State Governments, the IRS, and multiple State Banking Departments have personal, and legal issues with him and his business's, for years, there must be something going on with this person and his actions. You really believe all these people and agencies are just “horsey lovers” or have an anti-Gill agenda? What conspiracy theory is next on your list to prove (9/11, Bush used a Hurricane Weapon to start Katrina, JFK assassination, the moon landing)?
Just take a look at the number of fines or regulatory infractions this guy's mortgage business has had in the last 2 years. Those alone should give anyone some doubt on this man's ethical behavior in his business practices.