Postby DDT » Tue Jan 29, 2008 1:49 pm
What we need to do is boycott wagering, if only 50% of the people that wager on the races stopped, it would not take very long for track management and the powers that be to wake up and find out what it would take to get the players back in action. Money talks.
It is like the price for a gallon of gas, if we restricted our use to the very essential tasks that require driving it would not take long for a surplus to build up and prices would go down, they can only store so many gallons of gas....
What we don't need is the government involved, they would spend billions just having investigating committees come up with what is wrong, then a couple more billion to come up with some kind of quick fix plan that would fail, and we would start all over again.
You know, if you have a lot of crime on your streets you do not lay off policemen, you hire more.
Racing needs uniform rules, uniform enforcement of those rules, with no exceptions. I know it was very different 50 years ago, but if you got caught cheating you were gone from the sport.
What we have come down to is a computer operator sees what he/she thinks is a betting coup, management at a couple of tracks bans 7-10 jockeys without a word as to why. Most of these jockeys are still not riding, and of course if they were dumb enough to fix a race and share a possible mother load of about $60,000-$70,000 between them at the risk of being banned, possibly for life, they don't deserve to be riding. Opposed to that we have Cobra Venom found in the tack room of a trainer that has been banned in the past, an illegal substance, the vet gets 5 years and the trainer, who is responsible for what is in his tack room, he deals, gets banned for a year, and will be back. It makes no sense.
DDT
