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Originally Posted by jnunan4759
In a case like this it may be your only recourse. If I hire a trainer and he wins a race for me, we're all happy. Then I get my purse grabbed and I'm looked at as a doper. I'm going to be angry and am harmed.
Some owners are in on all of this. I never was. I told every trainer I ever hired that I never wanted a positive for anything. I never have had one. What they gave my horses I'll never know. There is no way to know. Nobody can know.
That's why a relationship between an owner and trainer is based on trust. Trust is huge in the racing business. I have an asset in your care and Trust you to do the right things with it. That's what it all is about.
Asmussen is a good example. He was exonerated. But aspersions were cast and he lost owners. He probably lost millions.
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I think a standard contact between owner and trainer would be a start, which I have never seen or heard of. Maybe that would be good for some, then again that might prevent owners from changing trainers like underwear as well. At the end of the day, positives can happen to trainers who aren't trying to cheat as well. I just thing some of this stuff gets sensationalized as well. I don't think many fans or media really care who the owners are for the most part unless it's grade 1 type races, so perception really isn't that big a deal. As an owner, who knows what's going on for the most part, day in and day out. Like you said trust is a huge deal but not every positive needs to be treated like Lyle alzado was running around the barns in the morning injecting everything in sight
02-06-2015, 07:42 PM
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