House Subcommittee Hearings

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Originally Posted by Travis Stone

If the other major sports in society can do it, why can't racing?

Baseball, basketball, football... they're very similar in that each individual team is its own business, at its core, competing against other businesses in the same market.

The Mets want to out-draw the Yankees, they want to earn more money, they want a better bottom line. Yet under the umbrella for the "Good of the Game" they hold hands with the Yankees when it comes to new steroid testing procedures and other rules/laws.

In flabbergasts me that racing cannot do the same.

Because Travis the scope of racing dwarfs those other sports. Because horses are subject to a far greater chance of environmental contamination because of the levels that are tested at. Different labs get different results for the same medications. How is that uniform? You cant compare it to other sports simply because of the enormity of the number of athletes involved and because we are far more regulated than they are already. You work in the business, you should understand these basic things. I am not against a central regulatory body nor am I against greater regulation of medication but to do it wrong makes it worse than not doing anything.