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Originally Posted by ELA
Sorry about that Chuck -- not really what I meant. I was not inferring to a positive you might get vs. a pattern of abuse. On that, I agree with you.
What I meant was more that the "where there's smoke, there's fire" thing can happen to you as it has others. You could pick up a new owner who knows how to play the game and lets you spot horses aggressively. Compoung that with claiming a few from a few 3% trainers who have given up on a horse or missed something huge, now you move those up. Now you get another owner, and another. Things get rolling. Buy one for the owner and win a stake or two. Do well at a few high profile meets. All of a sudden people are talking about Chuck Simon who may never have had a positive test ever before -- and now they are saying where there's smoke there's fire.
Regardless, and again I agree, I do think there are very few guys who have "suspicious" reputations that are not deserved. Well deserved? Sure there are some which certainly are well deserved, and there are a few that I think are not, but I do agree.
Eric
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I understand where you are coming from. There will never be absolute certainty. But many of the people we refer to are guilty, are known within the industry as being guilty yet they hide behind the standard excuses. And the real shame is that many of them walk around with a smuggness because they are using what isnt being tested for and they know it. The really sad thing is that the vast majority of the trainers do play by the rules.