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Originally Posted by cmfhb411

I'm not on board with: all the horses in the trainer's barn.

Example: You hire a particular trainer for the 1st time. Same trainer is caught cheating with my horse a week later.
Exactly, why should your horse be kept from running?

Does owner in your hypothetical have an inkling which trainers are sketchy or just claim ignorance and insult our collective intelligence? Would the trainer cheat if he knew the consequences of it? Would you as owner ever use him again if this happened? Would you as a deep pockets owner consider suing him for damages of your horses not running? If you really want to clean up the game the penalties need to be severe and the risk/reward at least evened out. As of now it simply is a cheating tax. Cheat 100 times get caught 5 and give up 5 purses and let your assistant run the horses.