Report: Dutrow Facing Drug Positive

[GBBob]

Originally Posted by SentToStud

Yes. How would it be better to wait?

I own a horse. I hire a trainer. I pay the trainer. I give him authority to treat my horse with medications. There are rules about medications. If my trainer breaks rules with my horse while acting under my authority, should I get a pass?

How is it much different from any other principal-agent relationship?

But you can't be responsible for something you have no control of or knowledge of. If society worked under that premise, parents would go to jail for their minor child's felony conviction, a team's trainer would be punished for every steroid violation, etc. Accountability is one thing, but fair is fair.

Should the owner of the Jeremy Rose horse be accountable for his actions? How about the trainer?