...it's time to start protecting local jurisdictions from the big owners.
Wanna protect little guys from big owners? First thing to do would be going back to the rules of the 90's when trainers could have a 1 and a 1A in races unless clear and total separate ownership. Under those rules big stables might have 5 horses with common ownership qualify for a race but they would have to pick two to actually drop in the box. Not many people want to watch a big race with half the entries from one trainer. And not many trainers want to have their one horse racing in a field with 5 horses from one barn either. The large trainer entries work together as a team to set the race up for their "chosen" horse. They can run the little guy out of the gate. Take a sacrifice horse and run him to the half. Hang him out. Box him it. Its just inherently unfair. It should be changed. Doing so would certainly redistribute some talented stock and help prevent the money from using their money to dominate everything pretty much everywhere.
