"Certified safe"

[westcoastinvader]

Originally Posted by opusone

Bigs I believe you are speaking ot Tom Jones. My wife actually called the number they list in the Times. He picked up and she bitched him out for while. Said not to write about s--t you know nothing about.

Remind me to buy you and your wife a drink some day.


We all want safety for these horses and riders. But when some sports writing novice gets the beat for covering racing, I think he/she owes it to his/her readers to let it be known he or she is learning more as it goes along.

Personally, I get a nice kick out of reading articles by sincere nubies struggling to latch on to the legacy of this sport in their writing.

We've got a racing writer out here who freely disclosed he just sort of fell into horse racing stuff and writing about a decade ago. He learned fast though, and I usually like his stuff.

Any writer who is faking....and learning on the job without outstanding research...or disclosure.....needs to be sent back to the classifieds department.