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Originally Posted by parsixfarms
Yeah, but now the NTRA/Breeders Cup announces a handicapping seminar as part of its "Tweeters Cup" at Santa Anita, and who do they have as one of their panelists? Joe Drape. I'm sure that his early season selection of (the supposedly drug-free) Mafaaz as his top Derby candidate qualified him for his spot on this panel. And we wonder why people question the leadership of the sport?
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The NY Times seemingly has an institutional policy that its writers must sensationalize at any opportunity any chance to knock the sport of horse racing. Drape has hardly hidden his own leanings with his "reporting", William Rhoden (who is a complete windbag) has taken numerous shots at racing over the years despite having virtually no knowledge of what he is talking about and one of their feature Bloggers is Jim Squires who recently wrote an book about racing full of factual errors, ridiculous innuendo and plain nonsense. Bill Finley was also a longtime racing writer for the Times and he rarely lets an opportunity to knock racing escape him.
I doubt the Times actually cares about racing enough to order an edict to knock it. But the tone of negative articles about racing that emanate from that rag is enough to make you take notice.
10-07-2009, 09:52 PM
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