Re: Frankel (389 Views)
Posted by:
Chuckles_the_Clown2 (IP Logged)
Date: January 27, 2005 01:01PM
The problem of course is in whether the appearance of impropriety has potential to ripen into impropriety itself and thats a risk some folks (Frankel included) are willing to take. I have serious problems giving any credibility to Robert Frankel on this issue. As far as witnesses go, he's tantamount to a felon with multiple convictions for credit card fraud saying "This application is legitimate". Let's be real, do you want Robert Frankel testifying on your behalf? I wouldn't want to be seen with him.
Below is the regulation involved. If you allow private parties to become involved in which horses get to run in a specific race, is there at least the potential for abuse? I don't think it's even a debatable issue, but then I tend to require integrity in things:
"The regulation, 810 KAR 1:028 Section 2, (3) deals with disciplinary action. It states that racing stewards may, upon finding a violation or attempted violation on racing association grounds: “Cause any person, licensed or unlicensed, found to have interfered with, or contributed toward the interference of, the orderly conduct of a race or race meeting, or person whose presence is found by the stewards to be inconsistent with maintaining the honesty and integrity of the sport of horse racing, to be excluded or ejected from association grounds or any portion of association ground.”:
http://kentucky.gov/Newsroom/environment/1-17kennethramsey.htm
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