I am not trying to be controversial or agitating in this comment. Am just trying to think broadly.

It seems to me that there is another guilty party in all this that is getting off the hook.

Shouldn't the racetracks or state racing commissions have caught this stuff before the feds needed to step in? Don't these indictments mean that some "official" or "office" was not doing its job?

I wouldn't want these indictments to make such officials or offices somehow be off the hook for anything they should have done. The situation (which I do not know much about) with Justify's positive test comes to mind.

Basically, don't these indictments highlight something that is really broken that needs to be fixed? Are we just supposed to delegate policing our sport to the Feds? Doesn't make sense, does it? When the Astros or the Patriots cheat, the league steps in -- we don't need the Feds.

Am I off in right field here?