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Originally Posted by Zippy Chippy
This could only be good in one way: if it finally forces the horse racing industry to voluntarily create a single governing body to regulate and promote the game. The current system of 38 different sets of rules and 38 different governing bodies has hindered the game for too long.
When other industries were faced with the threat of government intervention, they were able to avoid it by creating an all-powerful organization to self-regulate the industry. They got their act together in time to keep the government out. I hope that this will be the wake up call that the horse racing industry needs to create a single governing body for the industry.
The message should be clear: If the horsemen don't do it, then Congress will. And god help the game if it does.
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You are forgetting that most important thing. We dont have the authority to create a single governing body. And honestly I dont think the Federal govt does either. It really comes down to states rights and I dont see any state surrendering control to a central authority or to the federal govt for that matter. We can jump up and down and form any organization we want but the probability of the racing commissions giving up that power (which will surely have to be done by changing laws in many states, which is never an easy thing) is remote. The racing industry has no control over its own regulation.