Report: Dutrow Facing Drug Positive

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Originally Posted by freddymo

I agree with Eric on this one.. How is an owner to know a trainer is currently cheating.. If I give a horse to trainer am I there to see what the trainer is doing? And why is it that a trainer can't change there training or cheating ways? In all walks of life people are given multiple chances to correct the mistakes that they have been made accountable for..

I'll agree that you can't always know what your trainer is doing. And people should be given a chance to learn from thir mistakes, but how many chances to they get, and "I don't mean one of those major-league baseball Steve Howe kind of last chances."

According to ARC records, Dutrow has now been fined/suspended four times in the past year alone (two Bute overages in FL, suspension in NJ stemming from the Wild Desert affair, and now the most recent incident in FL). It doesn't look like he's changed his ways. Yet, has a single major owner of his taken a horse from him because of this? If not, they condone/tolerate the behavior, plain and simple.