Re: Team Valor's Irwin on online chat Friday (405 Views)
Posted by:
imallin (IP Logged)
Date: March 16, 2007 08:53PM
Thanks HP for the kudos.
You are right, something HAS to get done. Enough of the lip service, the horseplayers want ACTION.
Racing is SO far behind the times its amazing.
Racing needs a governmental agency like the FDA, for example. If there was a body that was government run in racing, they can force tracks to pay for better testing or detention barns or anything they deemed that would make the sport more honest. What about the IOC, international Olympic committee? Why can't racing have the NRC (national racing committee) that tells people to jump and they say, "how high?"
We need an agency that says to Magna or Churchill, "you have to have every horse in every race under intense scrutiny, 48-72 hours before the race" and if they don't comply, that agency can shut down that racetrack.
Until that happens, Magna and Churchill don't have to do anything they don't want to do. Its all lipservice.