Whipping fines

[Kirby's Ace]

Over $5300 for last week postings. Obviously, the fines aren't working. What next?

I say take repeat offenders whips away!

 

[Papillon]

agree

if they increased the fines substantially or threatened suspension instead of a fine maybe it might help a little bit

they wouldnt be able to get away with taking the whip away

[Kirby's Ace]

agree

if they increased the fines substantially or threatened suspension instead of a fine maybe it might help a little bit

they wouldnt be able to get away with taking the whip away

Give them a feather duster instead! 

[old guy]

Give them a feather duster instead! 

Fifty years ago Milt Taylor at Liberty Bell took the whips away and replaced them with riding crops like the jockeys use. That didn’t last long. Yonkers tried it too.

[Kirby's Ace]

I don't understand why whips with a cracker is mandatory. There's no upside to beating an animal with a cracker! It's the cracker that does the damage. 

[Jazzman]

nothing worse than watching a driver give my horse a couple of taps then lose the photo drive to the wire lachance parker ouellet thats the way i want mine drove

[halfinhalfout]

And when Milt Taylor gave them all jockey bats, during one heated stretch drive Vern Crank reached up to reef one and missed and almost fell out of the bike, so he tossed the bat into the infield...LMAO

[Mazola]

nothing worse than watching a driver give my horse a couple of taps then lose the photo drive to the wire lachance parker ouellet thats the way i want mine drove

Agree but if none of them have whips, its fair.

[Papillon]

And when Milt Taylor gave them all jockey bats, during one heated stretch drive Vern Crank reached up to reef one and missed and almost fell out of the bike, so he tossed the bat into the infield...LMAO

Vernon Crank drove a local(Liberty Bell/Brandywine) Invitational horse named Town Drunk in the late 70s

a few years later he was run over by a drunk driver while walking his dog

[JL52]

And is it true, or apocryphal, that Brandywine announcer Roy Shudt, referred to Crank during a post parade, as The Town Drunk?

[Parked]

Fines mean little to most drivers.  They knock the hell out of a horse and the fine is often less than their commission.  Remember TDS getting pounded 2 starts in a row at Lexington ? The fine was a pittance of what the 5% was and probably the owners picked that up. 
One day the SPCA will have a person at the draw gate handing out cruelty to animal citations.   

[Papillon]

And is it true, or apocryphal, that Brandywine announcer Roy Shudt, referred to Crank during a post parade, as The Town Drunk?

i have heard that rumor

[White Rabbit]

Non deterrent fines. Just listen to Anthony McDonald s podcast, he slots 6000 a month for whipping fines. These fines in PA , Ohio are like the fines NFL players get. In contrast to what the make the fines are just a write off

[sledge hammer]

Non deterrent fines. Just listen to Anthony McDonald s podcast, he slots 6000 a month for whipping fines. These fines in PA , Ohio are like the fines NFL players get. In contrast to what the make the fines are just a write off

I'm sure he bills the Stable owners anyway, zero out of pocket.

[MIKE CAMPBELL]

I'm sure he bills the Stable owners anyway, zero out of pocket.

How the fuck would you know what he does and does not bill