Triple Crown Winner - a possibility?

[MaTH716]

Originally Posted by Cannon Shell

People dont bet baseball?

Obviously people bet baseball. But for instance tonights Yankees Red Sox game. What percentage of people either at the game or watching it at home have wagered on it. Versus, How many people on Saturday wagered on the race. Percentage wise I don't think it's close.
Sure there have been times where players that have supposedly cheated have affected the outcome of games, but it's also a team sport and so many things happen is the course of a game. Plus it seems that there were many guys not playing by the rules, so sometimes it probably evened out. I have to admit that I really never gave the betting side of baseball any thought. Just because I thought that the betting intrest/action in baseball wasn't that great.
The point I was trying to get across was, if a positive test came back and the horse was DQ'd. Then some of the betting public would cry foul that they were cheated and the wrong people got paid. It wasn't a team they bet, it was a horse. Who got duped out of a win and a payout for them by a horse who won illegally. Not good for the sport on the smallest of stages (i.e. 5k claiming race at Philly park on a Monday), but possibly devestating for a sport on their biggest day of the year when the whole world is watching.

[Riot]

Positive drug tests are a very small part of this sport. There's very, very few of them. And they are nearly all for miniscule legal medication overages that couldn't possibly affect a race outcome.

Do they catch all of it? No, we know of some things that still need tests developed, and we know some things we can't find.

There is a bigger, and I think more important question of how often some tracks really test, how many horses they test, the completeness of what they test for, etc. That national racing czar, uniform rules, is what is needed.

But thinking that the majority of horses are not running clean, are running on some magic secret hop-up juice made by mad chemists that know more than every other chemist in the world (the ones making up the tests) is ridiculous.

I say the vast majority of horses in racing are running clean.