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Originally Posted by Rudeboyelvis
I hear ya Tom...Unfortunately it always seems to lead back to the same, tired discussion among industry insiders of expending funds (RE: take out) in lieu of limiting days and reducing tracks, - which , by the way would in turn rid juiced up POS's out of "Racinos" and getting the sport back to an actual sport... But I digress...
Realistically there is no reason that the sport can't attract as many gamblers as any other form...Gamblers these days simply have enough sense (and knowledge) to know when the game is rigged...which is why we muddle along, dealing with the same issues we dealt with back in the '40's....
Take the shot, dismiss the naysayer's, and see where we are. The cost of blood testing is insignificant relative to the exponential growth we can achieve if the betting public is convinced that the game is clean.... and Blood Chemistry Testing is the only realistic way to win them over.
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I personally don't think that people are not playing the ponies because of drugs. Matter fact, the sharps know who has the good stuff and who doesn't.
Drug testing will never be regulated and consistent because there is no association. The NTRA and any other comedy association is just there to give some people a job and type up of some press releases about some medicore horse running.
What this industry needs is some young rock star that pisses people off, like a Mark Cuban, to cause a stir, do something like create a 'league', I don't know, and if comedy corporations like CDI or Magna don't want in, adios.
Plus, it isn't like if we had that type of blood testing that these bozos wouldn't figure out a way to beat it, it will ALWAYS be around like it always has.