"Thread-cred"? Only with the repetitive blowhards on this list who can't stand to have their opinions disagreed with.

I read the article. If you would bother to read my first comment, it was that I wish that drug testing covered reinstatements like this.

Dude, you think it's silly, I could give a crap. You're entitled to your opinion, as I am to mine.

I never said they were directly related. The rocket scientists here made that leap all by themselves.

I said that trying to come back after five year suspensions - which are essentially equal to, "nice to know ya, have fun finding a new vocation in your different life" - should be a strict probation.

And yeah, I would include drug testing every 3 months as part of it. For everyone who wants a license reinstated: trainers, exercise, jocks, all of them.

They run the felony search again when one reapplies, but I see nothing wrong with making sure that someone who has done something so heinous that they were banned from the sport for 5 years is crystal clean on all accounts if they try to return to it.

Yes, that is apparently a really, really amazingly complex-stupid-weird-crazy idea to some of you. Gasp.

We can get as technical as you want, you are way out of your league. Let's start with the basics, tracks are not the government (though some like NYRA are public corporations or entities), but derive their right to run parimutual races through licensing from the State. Drug testing those under a government license invokes the Fourth Amendment right to be free from illegal searches and seizures as well as due process of law.

You may see nothing wrong with it, but the law does. You are clearly the most obstinate person on this board. You are right but everyone else, including the rule of law, is wrong. :rolleyes:

Geeshus cripes. Stop attributing your imaginary crap to me. I haven't talked much about the legality, or not, of drug testing, let alone aggressively tried to defend any legal position on it.

So your trying to attribute "obstinante" to me, pretending I'm insisting upon a legal point, is absurd and ridiculous.

You might notice that nearly all tracks are quite free to set their own rules, within the providence of their individual state laws. Tracks tend to be little fifedoms. As private companies can require drug tests of employees, tracks have and can and do currently require drug tests of some licensees under particular circumstances. I doubt that adding that penalty in to certain suspensions, and incorporating it within government rules, would be taken down. Perhaps it would be challenged, and would be removed. That may well be - I've never said otherwise (in spite of your imagination and accusation that makes it seem so). But so far suspensions, probations with required drug testing has stood up at multiple tracks for individuals.

Would it be the tracks or the state regulatory bodies requiring the testing? The reason I'm asking is that earlier you wrote, "And yeah, I would include drug testing every 3 months as part of it. For everyone who wants a license reinstated . . . ." Licenses are generally issued by the regulatory bodies.

Personally I'd like to see him burn a koran to make sure he didn't visit any terrorist training camps during those 5 years. You know since he liked mechanical devices :zz:

Strange ask. Gee, why would you ask that? I'm sure you know the tracks help determine, with the governor (who they owe), who is appointed to the state racing boards, which via input from the track owners determines regulatory action by request via the state legislature in most cases.

Dr Riot.. enough said the more you post the less crediblity you have,, Have a heart..Even the worthless Rollotomasi and his blithering nonsense is startering to appear well placed. We wouldnt want that!!!!

5 years is a very long time, but this is torture. :wf

Really? Do explain how this is wrong: The governor appoints his buddies to the racing commission, the track & horse owners try to control and influence the commission, the commission passes on to the legislature what laws or changes they want passed (which then enters the realm of legislative favors).

waterboarding

More control! More prisons! More disciprin! Respect my authorituh! Have some decorum! Slither into a judgmental, hypocritical social circle! Gossip about other people!

Certainly you are capable of discerning the difference between what a track, typically privately owned, and an arm of the state can do.

I don't know how things are done in Kentucky, but in Louisiana, the racing commissioners more often than not have no racing experience and are often given the positions by the Governor as a show of gratitude for political favors or campaign contributions. The commissioners are pretty much in their own administrative world without much interference from the legislature.

So I ask you again, in your quest to ferret the druggies out of the buzzer users and jockeys hiding in the fog, would it be the tracks or the state regulatory bodies requiring the testing?

Yeah, that's what I already said, isn't it?

Certainly, contained within your sarcasm and lack of any real point other than trying to snark at me, you are capable of understanding how current penalties within horse racing are written in each state, and that any additional penalties would simply be added via the normal process? Whatever that may be for an individual state?

And that you sound ridiculous?

Yes, I stick to my opinion that people wanting to come back to the track after five year suspensions - jock, trainer, exercise rider, groom - should have drug testing a part of their probation.

And if any states were to chose to do so, they would implement it exactly as they currently implement and outline the penalties they already have established.

That's apparently very hard for DaTruth to understand.

Good try on ducking and dodging the issue, but your drug testing idea remains patently absurd. Moreover, your ignorance is so astounding that I wonder if your state grandfathered in as licensed vets any person who could tell the difference between a cat and dog 66% of the time. Now run along to the politics section. I'm sure there is a new thread there that you have yet to comment on.

Insecure, defensive guys on the internet are a dime a dozen, but you've managed to make yourself stand out :D