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Originally Posted by cj
It is an FU to bettors because they let a horse run that they knew was highly likely to fail a drug test. I don't know how you can't see that.
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Yeah but CJ you're going down the EMD/SRU PA Forum Rabbithole of what should happen versus what can happen.
You're a smart guy you have to grasp the CHRB is in a pretty crapy spot on this. They can't force the horse to scratch based on it might fail a drug test. Even a crappy chemist and a crappy lawyer could testify the horse had a reasonable chance of coming back clean. No court would back up the CHRB decision to scratch that horse. Either the Seigel's could have gotten an injunction to force him into the gate or a 3rd year law student could have taken the Breeders Cup and the CHRB to court and gotten the 1st prize money plus damages.
You're the voice of reason on this forum. Surely you grasp due process. You can't arrest a guy who's thinking about robbing a bank and you can't scratch a horse who might fail a drug test. Welcome to America.
Here's where you outrage should be...
Elis had an out of this mess and choose not use it. He should be suspended for months not weeks, denied entry for at least one Breeders Cup and lose his TVG work.
The real crime is if this guy gets two weeks and shows up on TVG this summer that's a MASSIVE slap in the face to integrity.
That's where the outrage should be.
Btw... you can already tell in the DRF article where it mentions how clean he is how its going to go down.
