Re: Teflon Todd (630 Views)
Posted by:
Michael D. (IP Logged)
Date: December 28, 2006 02:13PM
TGJB Wrote:
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> I have been working on some things behind the
> scenes that could bear fruit on the drug question,
> we'll see. There are a few people in authority
> that really do care and get it, but the problem,
> even for them, is to some degree political, as
> well as legal (every time they come down on
> someone they end up in court, and that costs
> money). Yes, I know there are overriding issues
> more important, but as a practical matter they
> have to sell the ideas to a board.
>
> The two things currently that offer an opportunity
> are a) the New York franchise being up for grabs,
> and b) the new position tracks are taking to throw
> people off without having to give a reason, on the
> basis of it being private property. The first is
> interesting because Spitzer likes to position
> himself as champion of the public interest, and
> the most leverage the public will ever have on
> whoever gets the franchise is before they get it.
> I'm working on this, don't know how it will work
> out.
>
> The second is interesting because it may make
> things a WHOLE lot simpler in dealing with
> cheaters. It would if I were running a track.
>
> Re the boycott idea: a few years ago there was a
> boycott (against Golden Gate, I believe), and it
> was very effective-- the track caved. At the time
> I thought that was a watershed event. Because of
> the internet, and rebate shops, and outfits like
> ours, and e-mail, it is now relatively easy to
> find and reach a lot of bigger bettors and attempt
> to organize them. That's not an idea for now, and
> if it is done it has to be carefully thought out
> in terms of what the specific goal is and whether
> it can be accomplished. But it is something that
> can be done, and it may take some form of
> organization of horseplayers to effect change in
> this industry, and take it away from the Kentucky
> breeders. Those guys don't get it and they don't
> care-- their business is doing just fine.
Jerry,
What is it that the breeders don't get?