Re: O'Neill's horses to run in assistant's name (702 Views)

Fairmount1 Wrote:
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> TMW wrote: "You know, I have a number of horses
> with Doug. I like him as a person -- fun,
> engaging, smart. I am done with him. Took me too
> long but I am done. I blame the weakness not only
> on him but on the stewards and CHRB and others in
> authority. Just shaking my head..."
>
> Fantastic post. I hope you hold true to this.
> Invokes the idea of penalizing owners of a trainer
> that has violations by making their horses
> "ineligible" to run for the same period as the
> trainer's suspension. Would it effectuate
> change??

I will.
However, owners are not always complicit in what is going on with medication. Everyone thinks there is a conspiracy and that trainer, owner, and jockey know what is going on -- not true. At all. I have owned a hundred horses and have been told by a world-class trainer that "I don't know the front end of a horse from the back end of a horse." Not entirely true -- still makes me laugh though.
I agree owners need to say "no more and I am out of here" more often and that is what I am doing.
Doug knows my handle and we will talk in the morning if/if not he is reading this.