What needs to be done is this. Every racetrack needs to have enough 'holding barns' at the track. As soon as entries are drawn, each entrant is to be quarantined in the 48-72 hour barn (depending on when entries are drawn).

There needs to be heavy security there, security cameras and the like. Vets are not allowed to touch the racehorse in any capacity unless their name appears on the program as a person who came in contact with the racehorse. You are betting on horses and there are mysterious people running around with little black bags and no one knows their names...thats got to stop.

Also,if a vet has to attend ANY racehorse, the record of his visit needs to be recorded and made public. If the vet does throat surgery, that needs to be in the program. If a blacksmith changes the shoes, that needs to be in the program.

At each racetrack, there should be a video monitor with a running grid of information. When each horse gets to the paddock, there needs to be a slip of paper listing all that horses latest treatments. That slip of paper gets entered asap into a computer program and appears instantly on the scroll all around the track on select tv monitors that just relay late information on that days runners.

There's a million things racing can do and guess what? They aren't doing any of them and do you know why? Because racetracks are independents...they are not part of a 'racing league' like the NBA or the NFL....so, what incentive would each individual racetrack have to implement things that cost money, yet, at the same time, DONT increase handle?

Imagine sending my proposal to a racetrack and say, "hey,here's a good idea" The racetrack will say, "is this step you are recommending going to COST us money or MAKE us money?"

Would you bet more money if you knew that every horse was under lock and key for 48-72 hours before the race under intense security? Racetracks don't think you'll raise your betting...thats probably why nothing ever gets done.