SYMPOSIUM: Challenge for public to understand medication

[MaTH716]

To be honest Steve, I think many fans/gamblers that just look at the sport just from a gambling aspect, (I'm assuming that it's a very high percentage) don't care about drug testing. The only way they would care and it would matter to them, would be if they were able to have results for a drug test before a race goes official. Until then the betting public will continue to get screwed. They will tear up tickets on races lost to horses that are juiced up and then just be fustrated weeks after when the results are changed but they are out of luck. Otherwise there will always be perceptions around certain trainers, sometimes you will win with them and sometimes they will beat you and when that happens the only thing you are concerened about is the next race going off in 17 minutes. Because what good is understanding why a certain trainer is going to be suspended for 30 days for a race that cheated you out of a payout weeks earlier. Realistically the lost wager affected your life, a trainer doing days doesn't.