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Originally Posted by Hambletonian
Are you being serious? Unnecessary changes that will hurt the industry?
Stronach actually is ahead of the curve here.
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Yes. I’m being serious. Lasix and the whip were not responsible for what has happened at Santa Anita. This was pandering to PETA plain and simple. The same PETA that were nowhere to be found after the fires at San Luis Rey.
TSG has been behind every step of the way. That’s what happens when you have incompetence at the top and at every level on the way down.
This situation is what happens when you fire a popular racing secretary before the meet starts. It’s what happens when you more or less force a popular super to “retire.” He retired into a different job. It’s what happens when you try and strong arm trainers to run on wet surfaces they don’t want to, to protect the jackpot pick 6.
https://www.bloodhorse.com/horse-rac...-track-scratch
Some of the changes are a step in the right direction but you can’t have a drastic set of rules in one jurisdiction and not another that is also owned by TSG. This all but ruins racing in Southern California and will impact racing throughout the country. We need change but not like this IMO.
