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    The Meadowlands, Jeff Gural on doping (from HarnessRacingUpdate)

    I read what I assume was an editorial in last Sunday’s HRU and you hit the nail on the head. Unfortunately, the reality is that nobody cares as the vast majority of tracks are owned by casino owners and almost all of the purse money is generated by slot machines. As a result, doing anything to increase handle at a track with slot machines makes little or no sense.

    I do agree that my dispute with Faraldo hurts the sport and a few years ago I was on a panel with Joe in Saratoga and I went up to him afterwards and asked him if he wanted to bury the hatchet for the good of the sport and he made it clear that he had no interest. At least you should know I tried.

    As far as performance enhancing drugs, all one has to do is read the transcripts of the trial of Lisa Gianelli formerly Lisa Ranger and Seth Fishman and you would see exactly how bad it is. Lisa was a [salesperson] for Fishman selling both therapeutic and performance enhancing drugs and receiving a commission of 17 per cent of sales. It is illegal for anyone to be buying any drugs from a veterinarian who has not examined your horse before they prescribe the medication. She would visit the training centers every two weeks and drop off the medications that were ordered by her customers. Since she was getting a commission, it was in her best interest to encourage the sale of these medications and to the best of my knowledge no one called the USTA hotline to report this illegal activity.

    So far, we have only been able to view the customers that Gianelli was selling to and have not been able to obtain the records of who was buying drugs directly from Fishman. I was told there are an additional 200 names on that list, but so far we have not been able to obtain the information.


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    The Burke Stable is training 79 2-year-olds in 2024

    https://ustrottingnews.com/burke-tra...aining-roster/
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    https://paulickreport.com/features/k...ocial-contract

    Another big reason I’ll now be writing regularly about the federal racing integrity law is because someone in the world of harness racing has to do it. Right now, no one does. The United States Trotting Association, of which I am a dues-paying member, should be devoting its website to fair coverage of the law. Instead, the USTA has effectively become a propaganda organ for anti-HISA views. The USTA’s website and social media products, which thousands of people check daily, churn out a relentless stream of one-sided coverage against the federal law. My fellow horsemen and horsewomen deserve to see for themselves the other sides to the story.

    By turning their otherwise excellent website into an anti-HISA propaganda organ, and by suing to stop the enforcement of the new racing integrity law, USTA leaders have alienated hundreds of industry stakeholders who are opposed to such short-sighted tactics. For example, the USTA’s involvement in the doomed legal effort to stop the law has cost the USTA hundreds of thousands of dollars and precluded anyone in the harness community from working officially with HISA officials to prepare for the likely day that harness racing is covered by the law. USTA members who think the USTA’s strategy is nuts deserve an outlet for their views.
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    https://harnesslink.com/usa/burke-br...yable-anymore/

    “It’s not an enjoyable thing anymore to train horses, it’s going to be what gets me out of the harness racing business.”

    That was the sentiment from Harness Racing’s first $300 million dollar man in a Harnesslink exclusive interview detailing the latest twist in the saga with industry regulators and their somewhat unhinged crusade to clean up the sport.

    North America’s quest for clean racing on the back of the recent federal indictments has reached a tipping point, with some of the sports biggest names caught in the crosshairs, including the biggest of them all, Ron Burke.


    We no doubt need common sense but clearly more campaigning against HISA
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