NYT still dogging O'Neill

[Merlinsky]

What I think is hilarious is that you could tell people 'we have this medicine that can prevent ulcers in race horses' or 'we can protect horses from arthritis if only they were given this drug,' something like that, and these same freaks would be angrily calling for the use of it. I think we need to flank them. Trick them into advocating for the required use of some medication, then point out to them that it's been available all this time, and they've been trying to vilify it.

I know that we go on about how racing doesn't have anybody managing PR, but I'm curious. Are most people grumbling about it 'in house' (to other racing fans or people working in the sport), shaking their fists at the NY Times with the occasional sternly worded letter or threat of lawsuit (but not writing op-eds to them or letters to the editor), and reading or writing about it in racing publications vs. in ones read by average non-racing people?

I'm sure people more familiar with the political situation in NY would know more about how that's affecting this with Cuomo or the NY Times, but sometimes I wonder if anybody at the Times is PETA sympathetic. I think there's some sort of agenda we're not seeing.