This goes back to what Howard Taylor said to the KY racing commission. Handshake deals. Eric claimed in an article last year that he owns over 200 horses in partnership with Dana Parham and various other owners and trainers. How often his horses actually compete with each other? More and more often it seems like the entire game is rigged.
Blind ownership needs to end.
"Handshake deals"
Who pays the taxes?
Who pays insurance?
How are proceeds paid out?
Regulators don't want any part of policing this filthy industry. They just care about the giant vacuum cleaner that is tax on slot machines. That is it.
What a shit sport.
Find Irish/UK/French racing on TV and you see people 4-5 deep on the rail.
Racing is growing as an industry on every continent except North America.
Garbage welfare industry run by/for about 100 people with another thousand or two mongrels sniffing for tidbits on the ground.