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View Poll Results: Is being a jockey's agent and a track announcer a conflict of interest
yes 40 28.37%
no 101 71.63%
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Old 07-04-2009, 12:39 PM
SniperSB23 SniperSB23 is offline
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Originally Posted by Coach Pants


Name an announcer who is an agent.
Why would that make a difference? The announcer can't impact the results of the race so why would I care what other job the announcer has. This is silly, this is a sport where the owners, trainers, and jockeys are fully allowed to bet AGAINST their own horses. If we want to talk about conflict of interest isn't that the big one?
 



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