The Importance of Being Earnest

[MaTH716]

Originally Posted by Dylan Burke

My disagreement with you, Math, was when you insinuated "gamblers...... don't care" about the integrity of the game & only care about the next posttime. I think we (and I'm including you) want to see a certain degree of honesty and , more importantly much harsher penalties for repeat drug abusers. It's a sad state of affairs when we have to abandon any handicapping principles & include the "juice" trainer in our picks. I, personally try to avoid betting races in which certain "supertrainers" have an entry; and definitely avoid betting tracks where these same type of trainer tend to congregate.

I'll admit that it was a poorly worded post as I was refering to the post season awards which the thread was started about.

Of course I want the game to be fair. But once again, where's the integrity for the bettor when a horse tests positive a week after you ripped up your tickets? Sure the purse money goes to the right person, but do you honestly care about that? If you had a bet on Life at Ten in the BC, would it make you feel better if someone gets suspended? Me personally, no. The boat has sailed and the damage has been done already. My tickets are dead and I moved on to the next race. Does that mean I don't care about the integrity of the sport? I don't think so, I just consider it one of the pitfalls of the game that I have no control over.
Unfortunately while I could 1000% wrong I really believe that many other people that play the sport think the same way.