I love how anyone would even try and defend a trainer who gets a freaking drug positive. As a trainer, you are responsible for ensuring that none of your horses who run are running under any drug that is not allowed or any drug that might not be able to withdraw from a system in time for race day. The trainer is responsible for running the operation.
I think it's ridiculous that trainers who get a drug positive get defended and get a slap on the wrist most of the time. There are rules in the sport and they must be followed to protect the integrity of the game. If you get caught using something you aren't supposed to at the wrong time, it's cheating plain and simple.
It's not like Martin Wolfson is someone who was mistakenly setup by someone who was vindicative towards him. Martin Wolfson is someone who HAS BEEN CAUGHT CHEATING BEFORE. It's not his first time or a case of him being setup. He has been caught before and he got caught again. In addition to that, Wolfson has received horses from great trainers such as Todd Pletcher and Bill Mott, and not only have they run well, they have run extensively better for Wolfson than for Mott and Pletcher. But like I said earlier, Mott and Pletcher are clueless. Might as well move their stables to Finger Lakes. Wolfson is a cheater who has been exposed, and had the audacity to question Beyer's article. Hopefully Beyer goes after cheaters like this even more aggressively in the future.
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