Belmont Entries for 5/29.... Very Poor

[Payson Dave]

Originally Posted by Kasept

..... I make no apologies for being especially supportive when it comes to New York racing... And I know how hard most people at NYRA work to put on the best show possible...

...the Pataki administration worked to prevent the Aqueduct VLT parlor from being built in an attempt to financially hamstring the Association so the "Friends of NY Racing"/Empire group could foist the franchise into their hands. That perverted attempt to gain the franchise and the racino for their own greedy purposes has placed NY racing and breeding in the position it's in right now... And the fact that the New York media was too lazy to investigate those specifics or willfully ignored them, is a disgrace.

Every ... harness track in the state has their VLT parlor installed, and the most important facility that was approved a decade ago STILL SITS WAITING TO BE BUILT... Yet the editorial boards of the embarrassing newspapers here and downstate have failed to examine or decry why $1,000,000 a day in revenue has been missed for the past 2,920 or so days (Yeah.. roughly $3,000,000,00). As a taxpayer in NY, I wonder how there isn't an absolute uproar from the citizenry as to the whys and wherefores of this missed revenue opportunity.

... I'm tired of the over the top smears and attacks on a group of people currently at NYRA that have nothing to do with Kenny Noe, Terry Meyocks, Barry Schwartz or anything that happened on the watch of other Association administrations.... .

^^^ This is the type of info/opinion that the NY Horseplayers should be repeatedly sending in as "Letters To The Editor" to every newspaper, politician, and local TV Station in the State...

There are no doubt problems in the Racing Industry... I frequently hear horseplayers lament about being the lowest priority...about being an under-appreciated but important component of the industry...

The situation in NY is mostly a polictical one...many Horseplayers are constituents of the Politicians that are directly involved in the problem...Horseplayers have a little more leeway to rally public opinion... and/or to inform the non-horseplaying taxpayers/constituents of the huge amount of money the inept/corrupt politicians are failing to make available to the State budget/funds

One way of looking at it is.... if horseplayers are not part of the solution ....then they may well be part of the problem...