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I'm all for private training centers, there are alot of advantages I could see for a trainer - it's quieter, more relaxed, you can turn horses out in grass pens, biosecurity is better, you can create grass gallops, do more with the horse off the track to keep it relaxed and concentrate on it's training. Safer than working on a crowded track in the morning, with experienced and young horses all out there together.

The constant noise and action at a track, outside their barn, can be extremely stressful for some horses. A trainer can "shut the barn down" for a few hours midday for the horses to relax, but you still have people at other barns talking and moving about, trucks moving in and out, etc.

Trainers that are going to give undetectable stuff (cobra venom, etc) have managed to do it at the track in the shedrow for decades. So having a private training center isn't going to change that. The horses still have to test out after their race for what can be detected, and the undetectable stuff is just that.

I'll be interested in seeing how the authorities deal with any horse that suddenly appears ready to race in Biancone's assistant trainers track barn. Biancone can't be prevented from training at his own facility, and apparently he has one owner willing to purchase his ability to do so.