As I said to someone today "If you continuously treat your employees like crap, they will rebel".

Have you any idea what kind of salary the NYRA clerk of scales makes? Its nothing to write home about.

NYRA has always treated their employees like crap, unless they want to make an example of someone. I was (and still am in many people's opinion) the top bugler in the country when I worked for NYRA from 87-92 but was the lowest paid in the country. $69.00 a day!!!! I had to quit and go to Albuquerque to get a decent pay check ($110.00 per day!!!). NYRA has never forgiven me for that or the fact that my prophesy proved true - that they would never get anyone to replace me for what they were paying. It took them 4 months to find someone. Nobody wanted the job.

Regarding Braulio, you would think that Phipps would have made him his trainer for all the great work BB did for OP as a rider. But no, he treated BB like a hot walker. And so BB was relegated to training garbage cans for no name owners.

There's also a huge amount of peer pressure there and Braulio is not the type to make waves. He's probably only guilty of following orders, and now living his worst night mare. I really feel sorry for him.