Re: Internal Controls (392 Views)
Posted by:
richiebee (IP Logged)
Date: September 19, 2007 04:33PM
Unfortunately, the Eclipse Awards are given by...
...the same folks who want you to believe that the best horses in the game are
running on hay, oats and water.
No way a bunch of owners, breeders and trainers dressed in tuxes and evening
gowns are going to thank any journalist for exposing racing for what it really
is. Too much denial, too much culpability.
Maybe a Pulitzer Prize for Journalism. But not an Eclipse.
There is a great story in the Calumet based book Wild Ride concerning the 1991
Eclipse Awards, Wayne Lukas, Tim Conway and a champagne fueled Calumet Farm
heiress who thought she wasn't getting enough recognition. Would love to recount
it, but as the song says "I owe, I owe, its off to work I go".