Colonial Downs v Horsemen; Jacobs takes players hostage

Kasept · #1 05-20-2014, 06:57 PM

VA breeding proxy/bloodstock agent Debbie Easter, who went to the meeting yesterday and missed the first half of the Timonium sale, was on ATR today. She said that even with the deadline extension, the meeting was actually more of a setback than an advance of the issues. This meet really is up in the air.

luvalab · #2 05-20-2014, 11:30 PM

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Originally Posted by Kasept

VA breeding proxy/bloodstock agent Debbie Easter, who went to the meeting yesterday and missed the first half of the Timonium sale, was on ATR today. She said that even with the deadline extension, the meeting was actually more of a setback than an advance of the issues. This meet really is up in the air.

Thanks for the update, I caught the ATR replay while I was working late. She didn't sound hopeful at all. I've read this in several articles and Frank said on ATR last Wednesday that the horsemen were not interested in reimbursing the track for losses incurred during this negotiation time period. It seems like it will be tough to pull a meet together at this point with trainers and jockeys having to make other plans. It's frustrating as it is one of my best meets of the year from a betting standpoint.

One of the things that has been offered by Colonial is to run, but not open the backstretch. Which would mean horses would have to ship in to run. Let's assume Colonial runs Friday, Saturday and Sunday. A trainer has a horse running in a race on each of those days. Does that mean he would have to ship each horse in on each day? If so, that seems like a headache for the trainers.

Sightseek · #3 05-21-2014, 07:39 AM

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Originally Posted by luvalab

One of the things that has been offered by Colonial is to run, but not open the backstretch. Which would mean horses would have to ship in to run. Let's assume Colonial runs Friday, Saturday and Sunday. A trainer has a horse running in a race on each of those days. Does that mean he would have to ship each horse in on each day? If so, that seems like a headache for the trainers.

That would be a nightmare. It is a 2 lane highway after the 95 merge that is backed up for beach traffic.

I remember overhearing a very small time trainer making a call to someone saying how they got stuck in traffic for 90 minutes and made it 5 minutes prior to the deadline for the horses lasix. It was 90 degrees that day and high humidity. That, to me, is animal cruelty.