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![]() it was in an article in yesterdays paper that the ark derby had been a gr 1 in the past....i'll have to look it up i guess. if it hasn't been trashed already!
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![]() The Arkansas Derby was a G1 from 1981-1985.
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![]() Personally I am very happy for Satish Sanan, a man who loves the game, has put enormous amounts of money and effort into racing, has been robbed for untold millions, had the nerve to stand up for himself and what was right, and continues undaunted to support the game. Personally I hope his success continues.
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![]() He is simply conveying the feelings of many, that this group of people are hardly lovable and certainly controversial especially in light of the great stories of recent years. I think he speaks for a majority of the people in the market in which his paper is sold. Not that it matters a bit but they are not a really likable bunch.
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![]() I can tell you the two lawyers who are the original owners are not good people, and will most likely be watching future races from behind bars.
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![]() No question. The sales companies have little incentive to restrict steroids, for if they did, the commissions they receive would likely fall.
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"Have the clean racing people run any ads explaining that giving a horse a Starbucks and a chocolate poppyseed muffin for breakfast would likely result in a ten year suspension for the trainer?" - Dr. Andrew Roberts |
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Those that do not join, operate by, and so forth would be easily identifiable -- and would be making a statement that they don't subscribe to this newly established set of standards. Now, that's OK. However, different people -- buyers that is -- will have different standards. It might be independent in nature, but readily accepted at a point in time. People talk of a racing czar. Of course that won't work unless the true power to enforce, govern, etc. comes with it. Perhaps it's the Jockey Club or the RCI group that is the catalyst. Technology has a shorter and shorter life cycle every day. Planned obscelesence is innate. Technoligical change brings about evolution and revolution. Maybe we will see the same thing in our industry and sport. Eric |
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However I would say that a similar senario to what will occur and has been going on is getting together all the prisoners in jail, asking them to write new laws since they are so familar with the ones they broke, and then releasing them because they know best how to operate under the new rules since they wrote them. When it comes down to it, money and greed will bring down the house of cards that the bloodstock business has become. The "integrity" issue will always be a thorn in the side of the business of horse racing. It is hard for many people, myself included, to understand how you can call for integrity in one aspect of the business but employ a trainer that has had many problems with it. I understand that he is not in a popularity contest or running for office, but the sight of Jackson and Assmussen sitting together at the Keeneland sale while the former was taking his pleas to the KY legislature and the latter was in the middle of the longest drug suspension of a major trainer in recent times, was ironic in the very least. I undestand that Assmussen runs a huge operation and as such is apt to have more "mistakes" than others, but where do you draw the line? 22 is ALOT of mistakes. There are some things about all of the owners(except Bolton)that are not public knowledge that are not endearing in the least. Not that other people in the game are all saints but when it comes right down to it, it IS a pretty hard group to feel any joy for. |
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![]() Amazing that this article would appear after what i posted on this site. LIke i said these are not people that I want to root for and as I said in my original post curlin is all that is wrong with horse racing.
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![]() I just watched the HBO Real Sports special on drugs in the game and wouldn't ya know it, the guy that took the most heat on the broadcast...
Steve Asmussen. Ain't that a coincidence. A sobering reminder: he's tested positive 22 times (including one horse that was 750 TIMES the legal limit) and finished ITM 21 of those times. He acted like he had been framed!!!
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![]() he's more positive than Rickie Williams and look how harsh they are with him.
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