I\'ve never remotely considered Allday to be doing race day preparation. I believe the preparation takes time and is done weeks in advance. Its about blood and fatigue. Very self serving comment upon his part. However if one was naive enough to be influenced by one of the games biggest cheaters, even working on ankles and butts is obviously \"pre race\" preparation. Who does this charlatan think he\'s fooling? Never let a con man\'s semantics influence you. This man needs to be barred from the game. I know he\'s got a family to feed but if he can\'t feed them honestly he needs to take up a different line of work and if the Horse God\'s are willing, one day he will come clean or flip burgers at McDonald\'s. At least burger flipping is honest work.
I don\'t think there\'s any such thing as a trainer vet confidential relationship. No privilege there. However, I\'m sure Tricky Dick has some dirt on Allday after their years together and if given immunity from racing imposed sanctions for prior wrongdoing, Dutrow is certainly in a position to ruin what credibility Allday has left. There\'s obviously a rift between them. Allday is no rocket scientist and he has provided information for authorities to exploit that rift. How much proof there is in a trainers testimony without a positive is a fact to be determined. However, now is the time for Racing\'s Oversight Agencies to get fully involved. Allday opened the door for that involvement.
Why he would do that is another matter. Either he is as smart as this nation\'s Chief Executive, (i.e. as smart as a box of rocks), or he did so to try and impeach Dutrow\'s credibility. Its clearly a little of both, but why would he want to impeach Dutrow\'s credibility? I believe its because the rift is large enough that fear has set in for Allday.
This has potential, lets see where it goes.
richiebee Wrote:
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> Tuned in for Allday Part II and was a little
> disappointed. In Part I, Dr. Steve
> seemed ready to tear Dutrow a new one; in Part II
> the good Doctor was a little
> more restrained.
>
> Still, a good listen and we should all be happy
> that Steve Byk provides a media
> forum for Racing. But no real bombshells from Doc
> Allday. On the one hand he
> admits to milkshaking horses (before said practice
> was regulated). On the other
> hand he says he has not been involved in the pre
> race preparation of horses for
> quite a few years and if this is so a lot of the
> \"White Mercedes\" chatter on
> this board and elsewhere was much ado about
> nothing.
>
> It is very possible, as Sighthound and Miff have
> mentioned, that Doc Steve is
> just a top notch hock and stifle man while other
> vets and trainers are overly
> concerned with front end (knee and ankle)
> problems.
>
> A big disappointment was that nothing new was
> mentioned by host Steve, Doc
> Steve, Lee Tomlinson or any of the call in guests
> in the way of what needs to
> be done to cure Racing\'s ills: Yes a national
> sanctioning body and uniform rules
> enforced with reciprocity are needed. (The NTRA is
> merely a marketing concern
> and seems barely competent enough to conduct a
> bake sale). Yes penalties for
> cheaters need to be more penal. Yes maybe the
> penalization of owners and maybe
> individual runners which have been illegally
> medicated may serve as more of a
> deterrent.
>
> If any of the above solutions sound familiar it is
> because they have been
> discussed on this very forum for the past 5 or 6
> years, if not longer.
>
> I will concede for the sake of argument that
> Patrick Biancone may have been
> totally unaware that cobra venom was in areas that
> he was responsible for and
> that said venom may have been administered to
> runners he was responsible for
> without his knowledge; that being said, the
> trainer responsibility rule is what
> it is, and I think Racing missed a chance to make
> a strong statement by handing
> down a much stronger penalty in this case, the
> kind of penalty that may have
> had the effect of making trainers and vets less
> likely to wander through that
> cheating side of town.
>
> I know I am talking about a family man and his
> opportunity to make a living,
> but we are also speaking about a man who has
> already been excluded from
> participation in Racing in a major venue.
>
> Racing may have yet another chance to make a
> strong statement. When poster DITZ
> first shed light on the Wild Desert affair back in
> September on this board, he
> mentioned the possibility that Team Tricky was
> probably running afoul of federal
> statutes and maybe some state laws which deal with
> altering the outcome of a
> sporting event.
>
> The seldom heard from Indulto from the Rag board
> has always been a lover of
> alliteration, and while it is a hack\'s tool, I
> offer the following: Time to
> take the teflon off of Team Tricky.
>
> I think on Racing\'s long list of problems,
> cheating, whether it be drug fueled
> or otherwise, is not at the top of the list. Here
> is my short list of long and
> short term problems facing the game:
>
> 1) Failure to cultivate a fan base which will
> carry Racing into the next 10- 20
> years. In retail they would say that there is a
> failure to \"grow and market the
> brand\"
>
> 2) Lack of national sanctioning of racing.
>
> 3) Failure to take advantage of internet
> opportunities. I would love to be
> betting on Churchill and Fair Grounds in the
> comfort of Living Room Downs, but
> am/will be prevented from doing so because of a
> pissing match between CDSN/
> Magna and TVG.
>
> 4) Dilution of the breed. More injuries and less
> quality racing. A lot of very
> expensive champions being bred, but also a lot of
> fragile and faint hearted
> runners to be seen at any given track on any given
> day.
>
> 5) Inmates running the asylum. Breeders and
> trainers with 100+ head strings of
> horses given too much deference. The tail is
> wagging the dog.
>
> 6) Taxation and takeout issues.
>
> 7) Maybe now you can throw in cheating which
> probably started around the time
> that eohippus(sp?) became stout enough to bear the
> weight of a man on its back.
