Re: Teflon Todd (477 Views)
Posted by:
bobphilo (IP Logged)
Date: January 01, 2007 06:42PM
There are always those that try to minimize the harm that this plague of illegal drugs does to racing. No matter that honest trainers that don’t juice are being driven out of the game. No matter that someone trying to handicap honestly is being cheated. No matter that the public thinks that anyone involved with racing is a degenerate. No matter that horses running on illegal painkillers are breaking down in alarming numbers (racing’s other major problem) and jockeys are put at increased risk of death and paralysis. As long as some of us can get our slice of this dirty pie, it’s not so bad.
There has been much positive talk here lately of an organized guild of horseplayers to fight this illegal drug use. Such an organization would lose all credibility, as well as any moral standing, with horseplayers boasting about how they are profiting from the practices of these cheats. Such remarks play into the perception that bettors are a bunch of amoral degenerates, not very concerned about illegal and immoral practices of some trainers, as long as they can also profit from them. This would destroy the legitimacy of any horseplayers organization claiming it’s fighting for positive changes in the game.
Bob