More on Weights

[asfufh]

http://www.drf.com/news/article/68852.html
Quote from this drf article;
\"On Friday, several racing officials questioned whether prosecutors made allowances for safety equipment carried by riders and the fact that riders typically weigh anywhere from three to seven pounds more after a race than before it. The procedures of accounting for weights vary from state to state and sometimes from racetrack to racetrack within a state, depending on different rules and how strictly they are enforced\"

[Chuckles_the_Clown2]

Heres Spitzer\'s Office email link. Do what you wish with it:

http://www.oag.state.ny.us/online_forms/email_ag.jsp

Mr. Spitzer,

A hidden camera upon an analog Toledo scale, where post race a jockey bounds onto it so momentarily that the needle doesn\'t come to rest is not proof.

If a Jockey commmitted \"Grand Larceny\" by winning a race he rode \"heavy\" why in God\'s name are the jockeys not also indicted? Don\'t give as an explanation the \"persistent and continual pattern\" b.s. again. Your indictment cites enough high weight rides to be persistent and continual if it were true.

However, how is it that Jose Santos rode another race at 115 lbs the very day you claim \"Grand Larceny\" was committed in the Stakes he allegedly rode fat and there is no indictment charge for that other race? I guess the pattern wasn\'t persistent and continual enough that day. Do you think he shed the 7 pounds plus in an hour or so? Or do you maintain he gained it eating hot dogs between races?

If there is a hot dog in this affair it doesn\'t involve Jose Santos.

I call upon you once again to dismiss these ridiculous charges immediately and focus upon where the true deceit lies. You may think you\'re office is insulated from malfeasance because horse racing isn\'t really a sport and those that follow it are considered degenerates.

Judge by this letter and the other letters you\'ve received and the letters the papers will receive. They\'ve only just begun.

If your evidence isn\'t rock solid there will be a price to pay. We will ensure it.

Do the right thing, negotiate the corrections with NYRA that will protect the public from your fears and dismiss these charges before its too late.

http://www.drf.com/news/article/68852.html

[sighthound]

In a monumental leap of assumption and cynicism, I can\'t help but wonder, \"Who wants NYRA out, so they can be in?\"

[miff]

Sightound said:

\"In a monumental leap of assumption and cynicism, I can\'t help but wonder, \"Who wants NYRA out, so they can be in?\"


To name just a few:

Manga Entertainment

Churchill Downs Group

Las Vegas Gaming

A Wall street syndicate quietly raising several Billion in participants for \"Upstate\" Wealthy people.

Friends of NY Racing?

Probably many groups more under the radar.


Someone who is following the NYRA scenario said that the 2007 NYRA franchise award not only has multi-billion dollar implications but profound implications for NY Racing as we now know it.The Political poisoning of NYRA might be an organized conspiracy to ensure that NYRA does not get their franchise extended.

[marcus]

Nice points made by everyone , I might not be qualified to base or expresss an opinion on this one but  I basically envision all potential suitor\'s from miffs list for the New York Racing contract as those type of groups who will sit around w/ their feet up all day and pat each other on the back on a non-stop basis .
They should make a federal case out of the juicing issue and leave this one alone - perhaps Spitzer could personally escort the person who takes the hit for weight scandle off the grounds .
 Mall also had some interesting and perhaps visionary idea\'s in a post not to long ago about where he thought it ( Racing in general ) was all going , I think his bottom line was less is more .