Many years ago i went quite often to the OTB in EERIE that is now a racetrack and once was before many years ago and at that time rebate did not exist and the young kid who ran it gave me free rooms and free programs forms and food and no racetrack had figured this out at the time, There was this huge bias player that every race seemed to bet very small prices and would scream at the jockeys if they were not on the running he wanted them on and then i was told he is Andrew BEYERS and i kind of liked this guy and we had many talks and i would always ask him why was he not more involved because Vegas or LA card rooms did not have rich people that did not gamble make the rules and racetracks had the JANITORS who to me are horsemen and rich owners that do not gamble. We always seemed to be on the same page and kept telling him that the game was going to start hurting and its that time now, if we had strong people in media back then we would not be were we are today and i think Andy was in a good spot and i cant blame him for not rocking the boat but i do blame almost every horseman in the standardbred game but the Runners did have some great writers like STEVEN CHRIST and a few others that understood the game and i remember Steven writing the day after a BREEDERS cup when DWayne won with chalk after chalk him coming out and saying that this was the worst day in racing history and the game had to do everything in its power to make sure we did not have a boring chalkfest again and i thought it was brilliant and told him so and we never had a day like this again but in harness racing we have people that think of how fast can we make the track today and have 12 speed horses win and pay small and if you think there is a driver in the game that would understand this as a problem you are wrong.
