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Old 03-25-2014, 12:39 PM
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Sign up to show your support. Certainly a step in the right direction.

Association being created by Rick Porter.

It it logical that a national governing body be run by the racehorse owners. They are the “team owners” of the sport, with the trainers being the “team managers” hired by the team owners. The racehorse owners also own the publicity rights of their horses.


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Old 03-25-2014, 01:11 PM
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Sign up to show your support. Certainly a step in the right direction.

Association being created by Rick Porter.

It it logical that a national governing body be run by the racehorse owners. They are the “team owners” of the sport, with the trainers being the “team managers” hired by the team owners. The racehorse owners also own the publicity rights of their horses.


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Are you serious or just bustin our stones?
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Old 03-25-2014, 01:22 PM
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One Suit from Saratoga NY is a supporter.
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Old 03-25-2014, 01:48 PM
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One Suit from Saratoga NY is a supporter.
Hahaha.. I just saw that as well as someone named "Scott Blasi"

However, so is Barbara Livingston, as well as a lot of other well known people.

Do with it what you will.. support it or don't.
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Old 03-25-2014, 03:23 PM
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I imagine the league's season will end around Labor Day since there are no meaningful races run after that point...
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Old 03-25-2014, 03:55 PM
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I imagine the league's season will end around Labor Day since there are no meaningful races run after that point...
I must be missing something. Is this league a joke? I just thought it was someone trying to make things better. I guess I was wrong.
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Old 03-25-2014, 04:02 PM
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I must be missing something. Is this league a joke? I just thought it was someone trying to make things better. I guess I was wrong.
If I remember correctly this already exists and is not a new idea.
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Old 03-25-2014, 04:08 PM
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If I remember correctly this already exists and is not a new idea.
Where does it exist? Link?
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Old 03-25-2014, 04:15 PM
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I must be missing something. Is this league a joke? I just thought it was someone trying to make things better. I guess I was wrong.
His remark was regarding Porter's comment about Normandy Invasion not running in the second half of 2013.

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I'm honored to have achieved the status where someone took the time to post this:

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Old 03-25-2014, 04:35 PM
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You know the business is in trouble when so many people are willing to sign up for a project that doesn't actually have a framework or even a plan, unworkable or not.

Industry people do more harm with "plans" that have lofty goals and no real chance to ever happen, that will always make any programs that actually do come about pale in comparison.
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Where does it exist? Link?
I guess it wasn't such a rousing success.

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As long as owners remain strongly split on issues like lasix how do they expect for this to work?
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I guess it wasn't such a rousing success.

http://www.paulickreport.com/news/th...ague-for-fans/
Uh yeah...kind of like Frank's Energy Drink
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I nominate Carson Daly as a committee member. Meetings will consist of top 10 races of the week. Which will be edited 15 second clips of races with background music provided by today's most popular artists like Cee Lo, Katy Perry, and Imagine Dragons.

There will be a studio audience and there will be a reserved seat for "Zenyatta Guy" and Michelle Yu. Michelle will provide handicapping analysis for the top 10 races of the week and will guarantee an astounding 30% win percentage.
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As long as owners remain strongly split on issues like lasix how do they expect for this to work?
That would simply be a minor detail compared to having no regulatory powers or facilities at which to actually run races at.

As soon as someone comes up with a workable plan that can be properly funded I will throw my blowhard support behind it 100%.
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I guess it wasn't such a rousing success.

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Where does it exist? Link?
It wasn't a rousing success but was a kernel of a good idea and hardly a dismal failure under the scenario as it happened.. The HRL concept that Adena executed was an outgrowth of a different, larger idea of partnerships. There were securities intricacies involved in the big package that could not be finalized on a timely basis, so they backed off that and split the horses into the league grouping and sold simple $6,000 buy-ins (10 horses in a team). Some people like my friend Chet bought a share in all 6 teams so he essentially was following 60 horses for $36,000. (Ginger Punch, Ghostzapper, Macho Uno, etc..)

People that bought in had a blast as 'their horses' ran a lot and many got to be in win photos. The horses were spread around to a bunch of trainers -- large and small -- which of course was a good thing too. At the end of the 'season', the horses were sold and shareholders got back respective returns. Jack Brothers assembled the bloodstock for the HRL which produced SW's Pyrite Mountain & Montana Native among others.

I haven't talked to Brothers about the how the sales turned out, but you'd think the experience was a positive and likely produced some owners in a other partnerships or out on their own.

Their Facebook page is still up.. https://www.facebook.com/HorseRacingLeague
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