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General Category => Harness Racing => Topic started by: bond on December 15, 2024, 12:24:54 PM

Title: JUDGES GET TOUGH ON BEARDS AT HARRAHS CHESTER!!!!
Post by: bond on December 15, 2024, 12:24:54 PM: Looks like 7 or 8 horses scratched by Judges. Adrian Wisher and Jonathan McFadden.

Word out is that they are beards??

I commend the judges for finally taking decisive action--I empathize with any owners who may be adversely affected, as they could be innocent parties, and the horses should never have been permitted to have been entered in the races.They passed the race office--but NOT the Judges thankfully. Scratches negatively impact the track handle and the racing experience, which cannot be beneficial.
Title: Re: JUDGES GET TOUGH ON BEARDS AT HARRAHS CHESTER!!!!
Post by: yourmamasofat on December 15, 2024, 12:33:55 PM: If true it is about time
Title: Re: JUDGES GET TOUGH ON BEARDS AT HARRAHS CHESTER!!!!
Post by: Brown jug on December 15, 2024, 02:38:49 PM: good step
need more of it
once these guys know judges will actually do something it might change
Title: Re: JUDGES GET TOUGH ON BEARDS AT HARRAHS CHESTER!!!!
Post by: seen2much on December 15, 2024, 06:48:58 PM: I don't follow Chester. Who are they beards for?
Title: Re: JUDGES GET TOUGH ON BEARDS AT HARRAHS CHESTER!!!!
Post by: Harness racer on December 16, 2024, 06:22:28 AM: Wisher for John wagner
Title: Re: JUDGES GET TOUGH ON BEARDS AT HARRAHS CHESTER!!!!
Post by: Rohirrim on December 16, 2024, 06:55:56 AM: Cracking down is great, but the penalty system needs revamped. Serious positives deserve days but these class 3 and 4s need to just be monetary. Make the fines hurt. Commissions don’t need days they need money on their books.
Title: Re: JUDGES GET TOUGH ON BEARDS AT HARRAHS CHESTER!!!!
Post by: MCR on December 16, 2024, 07:42:57 AM: Oh wow 2 weeks to go and now all of a sudden we care??
Title: Re: JUDGES GET TOUGH ON BEARDS AT HARRAHS CHESTER!!!!
Post by: bond on December 16, 2024, 07:56:25 AM: Quote from: Rohirrim on December 16, 2024, 06:55:56 AM
Cracking down is great, but the penalty system needs revamped. Serious positives deserve days but these class 3 and 4s need to just be monetary. Make the fines hurt. Commissions don’t need days they need money on their books.

excellent post tmbz1 IMHO.
Been saying this for ages---Class 3-4 are therapeutic drugs that have no effect on the horses performance as long as the levels were not off the chart--so a fine should be the only penalty. No trainer I believe would like getting fined for one of these--and to lose a race AND get days-is wrong .
Title: Re: JUDGES GET TOUGH ON BEARDS AT HARRAHS CHESTER!!!!
Post by: Kirbys Ace on December 16, 2024, 10:12:33 AM: This has been asked before with no real answer but where does all the fine money go?
Title: Re: JUDGES GET TOUGH ON BEARDS AT HARRAHS CHESTER!!!!
Post by: old guy on December 16, 2024, 11:02:31 AM: Not so tuff on Adkins-Allard
Title: Re: JUDGES GET TOUGH ON BEARDS AT HARRAHS CHESTER!!!!
Post by: yourmamasofat on December 17, 2024, 03:44:31 PM: Why don't the beards get in trouble?
Title: Re: JUDGES GET TOUGH ON BEARDS AT HARRAHS CHESTER!!!!
Post by: Brown jug on December 17, 2024, 04:26:04 PM: agree, tougher penalties on these beards etc need to be implemented
monetary penalties always hurt if significant enough
lengthy days off for trainer as well
horse not allowed to be transferred and cannot race for 30 days

sure sucks for the owners but cmon they know who they are with, once it hits the owners pocket books they will wise up and stop supporting these guys
Title: Re: JUDGES GET TOUGH ON BEARDS AT HARRAHS CHESTER!!!!
Post by: Foalin at 4 on December 17, 2024, 05:13:12 PM: Quote from: Kirbys Ace on December 16, 2024, 10:12:33 AM
This has been asked before with no real answer but where does all the fine money go?

The State Racing Commission