In 5 years we’ve lost Arlington Park, Aqueduct, Hawthorne, Golden Gate Fields, all the Cal Fairs, Freehold Raceway, Pompano Park and The Triple Crown.
Will racing ever realize that a course change and an injection of smart people is needed?
@CraigMilkowski@derby1592 Watching live, I got the sense Deep Flame connections were quite satisfied with stakes placed Grade I black type. - As I was simultaneously ripping up my cold exacta to Local Knowledge.
If you listened to this week’s Sport of Kings podcast and incorporated our opinions into your plays, then hopefully you cashed some tickets including the all stakes P5.
@o_crunk What a lineup!
Take nothing from Englishman, not of his doing, but they didn’t even make him run for three furlongs or so. Holy Bull got it every which way on his Travers day!
The fact that HISA–our bastion of integrity–set up a database that essentially gave those entities even more wagering power, while sparking even further deterioration of confidence among the stakeholders we most need (retail gamblers), is both ludicrous and infuriating.
But that seems pretty straightforward. What's more complicated is what consequences face HISA. With everything we know, is there any doubt that the most active CAW teams were exploiting the same flaw in HISA's system that Marshall did? It seems implausible to suggest otherwise.
Like most of you, the latest racing news has stuck in my mind. No qualifiers here: Marshall Gramm's actions were despicable, especially given his position of repute, power, and advantage in this industry. Serious punishments are appropriate. And no, I've never met him.