Finally, an honest man...

[Delmar Deb]

In a complete form reversal, someone has finally come forward and admitted that they cheated when caught!  

Here\'s the link from DRF...

http://www.drf.com/news/article/62936.html

[Saddlecloth]

I heard his name at del mar earlier this week,

the thing that sucks is I bet that horse, and he still lost with the drugs.

a young trainer like kitchimon must have lots of pressure on him to succeed, those types really have no choice but to take chances if everyone else is doing it.

[Chuckles_the_Clown2]

Wow, I have to think his coming forward is also intended to put heat on the cheaters to stop this \"Don\'t ask me, I dunno what happened, whats going on here\"

[Boscar Obarra]

 Pretty unlikely spot (1st out, mdn-c) to try and get a juice edge.  Probably had no idea if the horse could run at at all, no less move up on the fizz.

[derby1592]

I have to admit I like the candor:

Kitchingman said Wednesday. \"I got caught playing with fire, and I\'ll have to reconsider what I was doing. I\'m not going to deny it like everybody else who got caught. It\'s not going to happen again. Unfortunately, because this is a competitive business, you do stuff you\'ve got to do to try to win races.\"

Very un-\"Bondsian.\"

Unfortunately, as has been echoed recently on this board, the cheat, starve or quit world these guys are operating in has probably created a lot of guys like Kitchingman. Hopefully, many of them will now rethink some recent poor decisions sensing that perhaps the tide has turned and the industry is finally going to start cracking down on the cheats and begin to level the playing field.

Chris

[Boscar Obarra]

  You know, if he\'d made a stink they could have called him the Kvetchingman.  

  Another ruined opportunity.

[HP]

Have any of you ever read either of the following books?

\"My Life In The Mafia\" by Vincent Teresa

\"Joe Dogs\" by Joe Iannucci

Both of these books have extensive sections about drugging and otherwise fixing races. The Teresa book (excellent by the way) is focused on Suffolk Downs (50\'s) and the latter is focused on Gulfstream (in the 70\'s).

All the stuff detailed in these books is still going on (judging by the news and this board), and the Teresa book has a vet character that sounds just like \"White Mercedes.\"

HP

[marcus]

well as a matter of public relations ( in a manner of speaking )these offending individual\'s are now taking \"their \" medicine . everyone makes mistakes , the important thing at present for those caught is what they do after the fact ... i noticed a dickinson horse flunked a test recently , how the powerfull and mighty have fallen ! it was truly amazing a few years ago when dickinson told a national tv audience that the people in ny told him da hoss couldn\'t run on turf which was an outright misrepresentation of the actual situation regarding da hoss ...

[richiebee]

HP:

 Also required reading \"Confessions of a Master Fixer\" which appeared in Sports llustrated, November 1978. I do not know the exact date but it was a cover story concerning a gentleman named Ciulla who was paying jockeys to strangle their mounts out of trifectas.

[TGJB]

Boxcar-- to quote Norma Rae, kahvetch, kahvetch, kahvetch.