Wow, someone actually gets it...

[parsixfarms]

Originally Posted by SentToStud

I believe you have to beat up the owners some as well. I would:

1. Extend the Absolute Responsibility rule to owners. Fine and suspend owners as well as trainers.
2. Deny entry to all horses owned or trained by the violators for a good period of time.

Just imagine what would happen if cheating Trainer A gives the gook to a cheap claimer owned by Owner X, gets caught and then Trainer A's stakes steed owned by Owner Y has to be transfered (along with all of Owner Y's horses) in order to run.

I'd be willing to extend the absolute responsibility rule (with corresponding suspensions) to owners, but only to the extent that the horse on which a positive is called is owned by the particular individual. I do not believe that Owner X should be penalized for a positive called on a horse owned by Owner Y.

I agree completely with the last part of your post. The possibility of having the barn shut down for a meaningful period of time goes to the very heart of the matter and needs to be part of the trainer's thinking before he considers "giving the gook" to any horse.

[SentToStud]

Originally Posted by parsixfarms

I'd be willing to extend the absolute responsibility rule (with corresponding suspensions) to owners, but only to the extent that the horse on which a positive is called is owned by the particular individual. I do not believe that Owner X should be penalized for a positive called on a horse owned by Owner Y.

I agree completely with the last part of your post. The possibility of having the barn shut down for a meaningful period of time goes to the very heart of the matter and needs to be part of the trainer's thinking before he considers "giving the gook" to any horse.

That's what I thought I was saying, with respect to the first part. Shut down violating owners and trainers and require other owners of the violating trainer transfer.