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Re: Racings next 800 lb gorilla in the room (547 Views)
Posted by: TGJB (IP Logged)
Date: February 24, 2015 04:55PM

I don't. Hence "nah".

The thing that finally made clear to me what the situation really is, and how bad, was the reaction to my Lasix piece in TDN. An awful lot of industry people thought my idea was great, and... nothing. Everybody looked at everyone else and shrugged.

So I looked at that and realized, if you wanted to make that happen, how would you do it? What would it look like? Answer-- you can't. There's no mechanism to effect industry wide change. People talk about lack of centralized authority in this business, but it isn't just a theoretical question. There's nothing in place to make changes industry wide. The Jockey Club is the closest thing to a national body, but they can't order change, just suggest it.

And it's going to stay that way. The people in power-- most of them in (or influenced by people in) Kentucky who are IN A RELATED BUSINESS (breeding, not racing), aren't going to give up power voluntarily. As I said the other day, it's going to have to be wrestled from their cold, dead hands.



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