The good news about Andy's article is his call for a detention barn, and his continued focus on the issue in general-- he and Harvey Pack hosted a panel at the Expo about "Supertrainers" last year, and I woke up early to go see it. It ended up being pretty tame, but it was good that they made a public issue of it.

The bad news-- he is completely misguided in thinking that the recent steps in Kentucky are significant in stopping what is going on. The opposite is true. None of the drugs now disallowed were performance enhancers, and the way this game works everyone involved in Kentucky racing is going to sit back thinking that the public is happy, so they've solved the problem. They haven't, any more than they did a few years ago when they banned milkshakes, BUT DIDN'T TEST FOR THEM.

Richie-- you are missing the point with the "guilty until proved innocent" comment. No one here is saying that a court of law should assign penalties, or that the move-up guys should be suspended simply for winning. But those of us paying attention can make informed decisions, form opinions, and post them, based on the circumstantial evidence of very sophisticated data.

You're probably not going to believe this, but there are even some of us who believe O.J. killed a couple of people.



TGJB