The author's opinion is a reasonable one, given that it does not make a great deal of sense to keep adopting more & more rules which are rarely, if ever, enforced in any meaningful way. Two other proposals which also make some sense are increasing backstretch security and, for a 48 hr period before each race, keeping all runners in a high security area which is patrolled & has video cameras. The problem is that all of these ideas did not come from industry insiders & therefore have no chance of being adopted in our collective lifetimes. At this pt, about the only thing that would convince me for certain would be if all runners were required to be stabled at a videotaped stall at the track for a min. of 30 days before being permitted to race, and everyone who entered the backstretch was subjected to a strip search.