Joe Drape article on Bob Baffert

[Half Smoke]

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Baffert, despite his Derby banning is still dominating in CA - owners are still sending him great horses

this year his win % is 27% and in the money an incredible 69%

the great track Santa Anita lost its luster in 2019 after 30 horses died in a span of 6 months

regulations were strengthened and fatalities have greatly dropped

Baffert is expecting to have entries in the Preakness this year




https://www.nytimes.com/2023/04/11/s...se-racing.html


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[burnsy]

The thing about this is I could only read the first paragraph or subscribe. But it’s part of the problem . The public never gets a direct answer or proper perspective. In other words , if you look for direct , fact driven journalism, it’s few and far between in most of our media outlets. The industry wants it to go away even though it doesn’t . Guys like this want horse racing to be the devil . And the truth is something in between. There’s a fine balance , wishing for hay , oats and water in today’s world is kind of far fetched. It’s really complicated. But , PR wise racing has to clean it up .

[PaceAdvantage]

here is a link to the non-paywall version:

https://archive.ph/1GkIU

archive.ph works wonders