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Originally Posted by pointman
You are laughable. Nice attempt to take what I said out of context in a futile attempt to save face. No one condones the cheating and drugging, but it has to be taken in context, particularly with regard to the issue of the decline in handle. You stated matter of factly that the real reason for the decline in handle is the cheating by trainers. This is simply not true, it is merely a factor amongst many other factors of which many of the others are the main reason for the decline in handle from this time last year to this time this year which is what the drf article was about.
Once again, you continue to insist that cheating is a new thing which is simply wrong. Drugging horses has gone back a long time and was done and known to the public well before decline in handle. In fact, race fixing in addition to drugging was a much larger problem years ago than it is today. It amazes me that people spout out nonsense and then continue to insist they are right while attempting to belittle those who correct them. If you have been following horse racing since 1986 you obviously haven't learned much. There was plenty of drugging going on then and this suggestion that it started sometime in the mid 1990's and drove big gamblers away is absurd.
Cheating is simply part of human nature and will occur anywhere humans are involved. It is not just horseracing that has cheaters using drugs to gain an advantage, but baseball, football, hockey, cycling, Olympic sports, you name it. Why isn't the cheating driving fans away from those sports?
Instead of posting before thinking you might try the opposite, you just might post something worth reading. Stop being a fan of horseracing, thank god Zenyatta has brought many new fans to the sport, it can afford to lose one!
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What's laughable is someone taking offense to this. Are you kidding me?
You mentioned the other sports where cheating occurs....baseball (cleaned it up and is prosecuting those that took steriods and humiliating those "great" players like Clemens and McGuire by not allowing them in the Hall of Fame. That is how a real industry handles those that taint the sport). Football, hockey have done similar. Cycling?!?? Are you joking? The drug issue in that sport is destroying it. They can't get a good handle on it and it is killing the sport. Olympics....very similar to cycling.
I understand that cheating has been in the sport forever. But cheating today is completely different and much, much, much more rampant.
There's really no point in you and I debating it. I believe the horse players should try and stand up to this in whatever way they can. You believe horse players should excuse it so you can keep playing the game. The current drug situation in the sport came on the scene in the mid to late 1990's. Same time as baseball and all the other sports.