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Originally Posted by Antitrust32
I dont know why people in the racing industry think this show should be promoting all the great things involved with horse racing.
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It's just the way it is.
The old-time horse racing press would very commonly write about betting coups and putover situations involving barn money...even in big races.
It would often be written that a horse was either "the medium of a failed betting coup" if the horse with some insider money failed to win ... or it would be called a successful betting coup if the horse won.
There are hundreds and hundreds of examples of this I have seen...and you see a horse called "the medium of a failed betting coup" probably five times for every story about a successful one.
Nowadays, you see a horse like Sassy Image get a flood of obvious barn money from somewhere after a layoff and surgery that went unreported, and it's like taboo to even acknowledge that it happened.