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Originally Posted by dilanesp
The only restriction on the power to rule off a trainer in California is it can't be based on nothing at all. (That's why Hollendorfer got an injunction against Del Mar.)
Interestingly, his lawyers have not obtained an injunction against SA. That suggests they know that Santa Anita has enough evidence to bar him.
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That last part is clueless.
The reason Hollendorfer got an injunction against Del Mar is that Del Mar operates under a contract with horsemen which is not identical to something similar at Santa Anita.
If SA were under an identical contract then Jerry H.'s angle would be that despite so many other would-be scofflaws flaunting the rules resulting in so many other horse deaths, he was "arbitrarily" singled-out (and "denied the privileges of the grounds") while many of the others were allowed to keep on flaunting the rules on those same grounds.
The fact that SA doesn't have that same wording in a contract with horsemen is what lets SA/TSG (arbitrarily, if so inclined) keep Jerry H. away, which establishes exactly nothing relating to how much "evidence" SA might or must have against him.
Tiz far, far more probable that Jerry Hollendorfer is and will always remain the same consistent training force he's always been no matter whether training at Golden Gate, Thistledown or Tillamook, than it is that SA/TSG has some special
evidence to show that he's suddenly taken to drugging race horses illegally and resulting in some of their deaths.
Hollendorfer may be stubborn in his unwillingness to change long-term practices just to abide by the whimsical new guidelines as offered by BS (when BS is reacting like a deer in the headlights to what BS perceives to be media pressure {brought on entirely by her own stupid reactions in the first place}) but nothing at all suggests
unique evidence relating to Hollendorfer.
Besides, Joe Drape wouldn't have bothered wasting time on some stupid Jimson Weed detail about a Triple Crown winner when he could have more easily unearthed damning
"evidence" against the 3rd leading trainer of all time (had there been any
"evidence" to unearth, that is).
