Re: Team Valor's Irwin on online chat Friday (489 Views)
Posted by:
miff (IP Logged)
Date: March 11, 2007 10:47AM
''Breaking a racing rule and breaking a US law are two different things....until doping a racehorse becomes an actual crime (as opposed to just breaking a racing rule) than we're going to still have people trying to take an edge.'
Imallin,
It's been a federal crime to attempt to alter the outcome of a sporting event since the Blacksox Scandal. It's not sexy enough for the feds. The only reason they went after the small time Shakes Martin and cohorts was because they spoke of mafia and multi million dollar gambling, both of which were grossly exaggerated.
Harnes racing has been a known cesspool of race fixing et al and it is well known but nothing really ever happens too often.
Mike