Re: Teflon Todd (770 Views)
Posted by:
richiebee (IP Logged)
Date: December 26, 2006 09:48PM
This has been brought up before on this board and on various roundtables and
symposiums.
If Racing was serious about its drug problem (and Racing is not) owners and
horses would be penalized for positives.
Believe me, a lot of these instances of the wrong horse being treated by a vet
or a horse being treated mistakenly too close to race day would miraculously
disappear.
The fact that there is no effective deterrent to drug fueled racing is
evidenced by the fact that Asmussen, Dutrow, Lake, Norman and Pletcher are all
in the "sin bin" at the same time.
History will show that none of these five will be hurt by these suspensions.
They will lose no money, and no indignant owners will pull their animals from
these trainers.