Hes 100% correct. If you think otherwise, you are either dumb, or have never given a horse to a trainer!!!! Owners just pay the bills!!!

Exactly-the Lawsuit has me intrigued because Howard is suing Gural for defamation for using the term EPO-seems to fail the smell test. Why?  In professional horse racing, owners are not hands-off corporate executives; they are deeply invested in the daily health, regimen, and costs of their stock.
BB3 wasn't a standard joint supplement or a routine vitamin bottle you buy at a local tack shop. It was a highly expensive, custom-compounded designer peptide.The evidence produced by FBI showed that BB3 and EPO are a distinction without a difference when it comes to cheating and horse welfare
For an owner to receive invoices from multiple different training operations, all featuring billing from Dr. Seth Fishman’s obscure Florida laboratory, and simply click "pay" without ever asking, "Who is this vet and why are we buying so much from him?" stretches the boundaries of credibility.
When multiple horses across multiple different barns suddenly start dropping their times and winning purses at a highly unusual rate, an experienced owner knows exactly what is happening. As racing officials noted during the Fishman trials, professionals know the physical limits of a horse; sudden spikes in performance don't happen naturally.
The defamation gamble could open a can of worms ! By claiming Gural ruined his reputation by calling him a doper, Howard has forced a federal judge to look directly at this absurd "I just paid the bills" excuse. When Gural’s lawyers present a jury with the sheer statistical impossibility of multiple different trainers independently using the exact same underground doping ring funded by the exact same checkbook, Howards "curveball" legal technicalities are highly likely to fall apart under ordinary human logic.

There were plenty of "big" owners names on those lists. Respectable, legitimate people, businessowners, etc. I've made my opinion on Taylor very clear from day one. I think the sport and business is better off without him. Period. However, pick any owner on that list, big or small, and I still want to know-----what they ordered and who it was shipped to. Even after that, there may still be questions. But to me that's the starting point. I've paid plenty of equine bills in my day and on a rare occasion, I have paid bills directly to vendors. Vets, chiropractors, and vendors like that. I remember twice it was for equipment, which was shipped to the trainer's barn. However, I never once received or had possession of anything I paid for.