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This is all due to the permissive attitude of the racing commissions. I remember when the NYRA people were pondering a suspension against Dick Dutrow he actually made a public statement that if suspended he would take his stable elsewhere to race. Such a threat should have earned him a suspension on its own. Then even when he was suspended he just continued to run his operation through his assistant trainer from his living room phone. He finally got a multi-year suspension he is now serving.
What's just as disturbing is that several prominent trainers (I believe included Romans) testified at a hearing on his behalf to have his suspension shortened.
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