State investigating NYRA takeout issues; Hayward, Kehoe terminated

[Antitrust32]

Originally Posted by Calzone Lord

Even if he was temporarily stealing from bettors and got caught with his hand in the cookie jar...I liked this Heyward guy a lot and I think ultimately we're way better off with him than your avg guy who gets that position.

I really liked Barry Schwartz a lot. Maybe they can get him back. He was outstanding and tried harder than anyone to get things going in a better direction.

Outside of the real young guy in Canada at Hastings and the guys at Tampa Bay Downs and Charles Town...it's a veritable Dumb and Dumber parade of racings Powers that be. Hopeless.

Raj?

even if he was temporarily stealing from bettors and got caught with his hand in the cookie jar...I liked this Heyward guy a lot.

[Bigsmc]

Originally Posted by Antitrust32

Raj?

imagesCAYM3Q8J.jpg

[pointman]

I am not one to jump to conclusions based upon allegations and I have been a supporter of NYRA, but if this is true, this is a real slap in the face to loyal NYRA customers. Ed Fountaine has this piece in the NY Post today.

http://www.nypost.com/p/sports/horse...W51oB3IxYSakbN

[Gaelic Storm]

The part of this that I want ot know more about is this:

"We originally had thought that we would announce this for Saratoga but political forces intervened."

Who are the political forces and what did they know and when. I would like to see Hayward come out swinging bit I am thinking he will fall on the sword.

[The Bid]

How is Hayward going to come out swinging. He cannot even control his own racing office. They all need to be fired

[alysheba4]

this sport is a never ending debacle. a perpetual clusterf@ck.

[hockey2315]

If what the report says is true, there is absolutely no chance that Hayward keeps his job. I can't imagine this being a case of pre-meditated fraud or theft, though. It's not like NYRA was siphoning money from the pools and paying it to execs--the extra funds were relatively negligible in the grand scheme of things and nobody had any motive to "steal." Seems like a case of ineptitude or negligence that was compounded by some very poor decisions once the mistake was found.