...his reputation went up a few levels !!!!!!! What must you think of the non-cheats?Originally Posted by aussiebreno
...his reputation went up a few levels !!!!!!! What must you think of the non-cheats?
They are obviously losers who can't even win a race. No time for them.
Only joking. I don't understand what you mean by your post.
Well, lets roll with that Lenny. You know exactly how I feel about cheats Lenny unless you don't read my posts (which is also understandable).
http://www.harnesslink.com/www/Article.cgi?ID=98108 is the link for the new penaltys since june 2012 in NSW. Ketorolac or Toradol falls into the Class 3 section of the new rules, or if you like, Bill and Triples close to the heart topics of therapeutic drugs in the sport. He was entitled to get 12 months first offence, he knew he was guilty and he accepted the consequences. He was given 9 months (I am guessing because he admitted guilt) knowing full well that the horse was being treated with ketorolac. Yeah , it might seem a bit of a oxymoron to say that his reputation went up in my eyes, but only in the fact that he accepted the charge and the penalty and the responsibility for presenting the horse for competition with a substance that falls outside the guidelines. He offered no phoney excuse or tried all those avenues of appeal that we now see on a regular basis from others who have been charged with much much more serious offences. There is no evidence of systemic wrong doing in this blokes case. He made a blue and now he is hopefully going to learn from it.
So my estimation of him went up as a man Lenny. I am not defending him for breaching the rules, he broke 'em and he is going for a holiay. Reckon when a young bloke makes a mistake they can do with some sort of support. Let he who casts the first stone Len
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