Blasi fined...

Originally Posted by blackthroatedwind

No sane person said they were cheating in this instance, but they are convicted cheaters, and serious ones at that, and thus deserve the optimum fine.

$2500? Really? How much did the late scratch of one of the favorites cost Churchill in revenue? I would guess substantially more than $2500. Of course, why should the barn have to participate in the costs they incurred. Nobody is ever to blame for screwups, honest or dishonest, but whatever the case the horseplayers get screwed one way or another.

This barn has been convicted of a severe violation, and the trainer was eager to admit it, rather than face the possible consequences of a far more severe violation. Sorry if I don't care whether it was an honest or dishonest mistake. As far as I am concerned they are the enemies of anybody that bets horses and the sooner the game is rid of their ilk the better off we will all be....whether we are bettors, owners or fans.

I understand what you are trying tyo say, I truly do.
But what you are proposing would be the same as asking a jock who blows a race with a horrible ride to compensate the fans.
Or say a trainer who does a lousy job preparing a big fave for a race to compensate the bettors for what they blew.
They are called mistakes. Like splitting a variant on two sprint races 30 minutes apart at Calder where Shake You Down ran the same time as Valid Video did at the same distance on the same track and giving Shake You Down a subtsantially higher figure. LOL!!!! We all know how that one turned out don't we? Valid Video won the Kings Bishop at an overlaid price, and Shake You Down blew his next stake at an underlaid price. Where should bettors send their claims to the money they blew on the atrocious figs?
Nobody makes mistakes on purpose, thats why they are called mistakes.

Noone was hurt here, the horse was scratched and the money refunded with plenty of time for those who liked Blasi's horse to bet a different one if they chose to.