Re: Team Valor's Irwin on online chat Friday (518 Views)
Posted by:
imallin (IP Logged)
Date: March 11, 2007 02:48PM
Doping racehorses and 'racefixing' are two different things. A trainer putting a chemical into a horse is not viewed as an actual attempt to alter the event via racefix.
The feds, or whoever it may concern, views 'race fixing' as when human beings (jockeys or trainers or owners) have actual discussions on altering the form of the horse in the running of the race. Any racefixes in the past were racefixes where people got caught on wiretaps and such.
Technically you all are correct to say that if a trainer intentionally administer's a chemical to alter the performance of his horse, it should be viewed as a racefix.
I just think some people's definition of 'racefixing' involves verbal discussions between human beings and discussions of betting....where putting a chemical into a racehorse only involves the trainer.