By Steve Rhodes and Jim Coffman
Plus: Drinking The Bears’ Bourbon & Baseball’s Blockbusters.
Posted on August 1, 2014
TrackNotes: Junkies In Narcissistic Denial
By Thomas Chambers
Just when you feel a little enthusiasm for horse racing again, the game clotheslines you right back into the shit hole.
We’re going to hell, and if you stick around, we can drag you right down with us.
Roger Goodell’s NFL discipline policies and decrees may be upside down, but at least they exist.
Now think about the dark side of horse racing: pain killers, steroids, thyroid medications, muscle relaxants, batteries (hand-held shock devices), mysteriously lackadaisical efforts by jockeys, poor track maintenance, tote fraud, past posting, corrupt stewardship and the lost integrity of the race.
Why would anyone involved in horse racing choose to ever do the right thing, take the high road, use common sense, do right by the horses, when they know damn well that they’re never going to be truly penalized for anything? It’s a destructive, tornadic confluence of: Everybody does it. We have to win. Therefore, we have to do it. We do it because we can. Nobody said we couldn’t do it.
Posted on August 1, 2014