Beckwith and Mcassey

[MCR]

The Beckwith kid only win 4 races today..2 were the old mans How many times did Beckwith's trailer leave the grounds today and come back in, once or twice?

Whatever happened to the if your stabled there all horses had to be on the grounds 24 hours prior? That's the whole reason Jackie Rousse now Jackie Greene moved off the track

[Cobalt Kenny]

Leave the business if you or your trainer can't afford a trailer.

So to leave the grounds, the day your racing so you can run a pound of backing soda in your horse, plus prod him, and give him whatever in the vein...all you need is to afford a trailer???  Geez, can you rent trailers??

[Cobalt Kenny]

Whatever happened to the if your stabled there all horses had to be on the grounds 24 hours prior? That's the whole reason Jackie Rousse now Jackie Greene moved off the track

Current regime disregards that rule

[MCR]

Current regime disregards that rule

Bring back that rule

[Cobalt Kenny]

Bring back that rule

  LEVEL THE PLAYING FIELD 

[Blue Skies]

Cobalt Kenny makes a great point. If everybody could race their horses on testosterone and sheep wormer knowing that if they do come up positive, nothing will ever happen, then they all would. Beckwith's have 8 TESTOSTERONE positives. Obviously he continues to race horses on hormones because nothing will happen. It just starts there.

[Grandstand Handicapper]

I'd be all for a 24-hour quarantine race barn. Added costs, labor, etc. Worth it. I wonder if all tracks have the facilities for this. Maybe this is an idea for HISA.

Problem is...much of the problem is not within 24 hours. It's more of a "program" so to speak. But eliminate the 24 hours and you are taking a step in the right direction.

[Mr.Turnpike]

   Someone needs to do something
   Does anyone in there right mind thinks Mcassey should be averaging a 600 udr

[Cobalt Kenny]

   Someone needs to do something
   Does anyone in there right mind thinks Mcassey should be averaging a 600 udr

600 UDR?.. I didn't know McAssey drove!

[Cobalt Kenny]

of course we know that Mr. Turnpike means a 600 UTR... and personally, I thought it would be higher

[Cobalt Kenny]

I'd be all for a 24-hour quarantine race barn. Added costs, labor, etc. Worth it. I wonder if all tracks have the facilities for this. Maybe this is an idea for HISA.

Problem is...much of the problem is not within 24 hours. It's more of a "program" so to speak. But eliminate the 24 hours and you are taking a step in the right direction.

It's an idea but it won't happen, especially at Saratoga… For Christ sake's they don't care if you'll leave the grounds with a truck and trailer the day of the race and then bring them back later to race and I respectfully disagree for that I believe most of the damage is done within 24 hours… Examples: sheep wormer, baking soda prodding etc... from what I understand , Epogen's got to be given six days or more out from the race.. to be safe

[Grandstand Handicapper]

It's an idea but it won't happen, especially at Saratoga… For Christ sake's they don't care if you'll leave the grounds with a truck and trailer the day of the race and then bring them back later to race and I respectfully disagree for that I believe most of the damage is done within 24 hours… Examples: sheep wormer, baking soda prodding etc... from what I understand , Epogen's got to be given six days or more out from the race.. to be safe

Maybe it will, maybe it won't. The landscape of the industry is changing with HISA. Not IF HISA applies to harness racing, but WHEN HISA applies to harness racing, it will be a very different world. Watch what happens when an authority, a governing body, has the ability to make change----withhold monies/dollars, impact (simulcasting) content, force enforcement, even shut down racing. Watch what happens then. It's already happened in isolated cases with the thoroughbreds. HISA has brought about change.

Maybe not at Saratoga. But maybe. Rome wasn't built in a day. If Saratoga doesn't survive until then, something else will be built instead of Rome. LOL.

[7minuteAbz]

Jackie is a very sharp businesswoman, and has made some good purchases from the late Bob McIntosh. Jaymes and Billy have relocated to Fort Edward. Mark will always be Mark, lives and breathes racing.

[Locked in with pace]

    Spending $100,000 for a horse that fits the NW 2/5 where so many in that class are bought for less than $10,000 or be claimed for $12.000-$15,000 looks good but what about the net bottom line.. You need to have the resources to do this. And what about the ones that are bought for big money and disappear?  Most horsemen can't do this.
    Having owners with deep pockets is a huge advantage in this game when most trainers struggle to get by and have to take horses on deals. Many excellent trainers are out there who just don't have the monetary resources to be noticed.
   Then again in life. lots of money sure helps.

[MCR]

   Someone needs to do something
   Does anyone in there right mind thinks Mcassey should be averaging a 600 udr

The meet is only 2 weeks in.   It's not hard to bat 5 to 600 with limited starts.  I'm sure as the meet goes on it'll level out