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Originally Posted by the_fat_man
Why is it MY business, or that of any bettor, whether the game is clean or not?
When the different tracks figure out how to COMPLETELY clean up the game, then maybe some of this will have meaning to me. When there are so many cheating out there, I don't think it's very productive to focus on a single individual. There are worse things happening in the world than scumbags hurting horses.
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All change is incremental. Your point's like saying that, until we can round up all the criminals at once, we shouldn't enforce any laws. Or because someone is committing murder, we should no longer prosecute theft.
Aside from the inherent handicapping conundrums created by today's supertrainers (how do you quantify how much new trainer "X" will move a recent acquisition up), the perception problem created by having an unclean sport serves to keep away (or more importantly, drive away) potential owners and bettors. Of course, if you don't care about having five and six horse fields, I guess that's not a problem. For most of the rest of us, that is a problem.