Espinoza fined for excessive whipping of Stellar Wind

[Jay Frederick]

Originally Posted by Dunbar

There are a lot of reasons for racing's decline in popularity in the past 50 years. Energy spent defending the use of the whip could be better spent addressing some of those other issues. Defending whip use is ultimately going to be wasted energy. I'll be surprised if anything resembling hitting a horse with a half-pound stick will be allowed 20 years from now.

--Dunbar

Would it be fair to say that energy spent trying to ban the whip might be wasted energy as well? Maybe energy spent trying to ban the whip could be better spent addressing more important issues that actually impact people that put their money into the game.