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Originally Posted by thaskalos
Racing's biggest problem is that it has lost the little integrity it had...along with its better customers - who no longer have the confidence in the game to bet the amounts of money they once did.
50% winning trainers, rampant drug use, slap-on-the-wrist fines for the drug offenders, repeated after-the-bell-betting incidents...and no policing measures in sight.
Any gambling game with no integrity is doomed to failure.
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The after the bell incidents are nothing compared to the money that's pilfered out of the pools by people, who otherwise can't handicap a shred, that have their money "land" on the right horses because they know which horses have illegal drugs and which ones do not.