I wish there was a central website - DRF? - where you could pay to download lifetime histories of days off/positives on trainers.
Now, it's going to be a rare trainer that has nothing at all (Mandella got a micro-positive on Tin Man out of his last race, in fact, for a NSAID) - but patterns and repeated violations, and degree of violation, would matter to me as an owner selecting a trainer.
Edit: I just realized the above sounds exactly like Maggie Moss defending Dutrow as, "well, it wasn't as bad as cobra venom!"
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"Have the clean racing people run any ads explaining that giving a horse a Starbucks and a chocolate poppyseed muffin for breakfast would likely result in a ten year suspension for the trainer?" - Dr. Andrew Roberts
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