Barry Irwin

[magicnight]

Everything except handling the 2-week gap well?

[Deadrockstar]

He also exempted Drysdale.

[Niall]

I doubt people in the racing and horse trading business are going to take offense at being called \"less than truthful\" ...

[TGJB]

No. As far as I know Barry does his own work. He\'s doing something different because he\'s in a different position-- he has to get clients who do not use what we do to buy into individual horses, therefore they have to look good on standard form. I\'m looking for things that look better on what we do than standard form. This mostly leads Barry to look outside the U.S.

[Boscar Obarra]

The good news is, the average trainer is 1000% more honest than the average Chinese stock listed on the exchanges.

 On second thought , maybe that\'s not saying much.

[miff]

And equally honest as some Partnership Managers who refuse to disclose the acquistion cost of horses they sell shares in. Certain partnership Managers mark up horses more than 100% to unsuspecting, or newbie sucker owners, pocketing the difference.


Mike

[TGJB]

Correct about partnerships in general. For the record, the Graph partnerships mark up nothing. We get paid strictly out of revenue the horses produce, either through purses or resale.

[miff]

Your model is rare!!

[TGJB]

Unique.

[Caradoc]

Are you sure about Drysdale? No mention of him in this article.  Was it on the Fan that he mentioned Drysdale?

Kiaran may be on the phone to his lawyer.

http://www.drf.com/news/kentucky-derby-trainers-respond-irwins-claim

[ajkreider]

Given a similar venue a few minutes ago, he pretty much agreed with your sentiments.

And then, he said he supports ant-drug legislation, and FBI involvement in that regard.

[sighthound]

Frankly, I am unfortunately confident that a good portion of the \"general public\" already thinks horse racing is evil and mean, we beat them with whips, we shove them in the gates when they don\'t want to run, we fill them full of steroids.

Believe me - Irwin talking about honesty is only good for the sport.

[MO]

Barry\'s performance today was music to my ears. Well done Barry!

[Boscar Obarra]

http://www.equidaily.com/bestbet/news/2011/0523.html


Barry Irwin: I\'m all for it. I can\'t wait. One thing I\'d like to see happen in this sport is I\'d like to see the FBI get involved. There are a certain amount of guys that are always going to want to cheat. There\'s tons of guys out there that will sell drugs to these people but there\'s only a few guys that can use it and it\'s the same guys year-in and year-out. I\'m not talking about the drugs people know everyday - bute, lasix, all that stuff - I\'m talking designer drugs. Drugs like the BALCO guys had. We need to get the FBI to investigate that kind of stuff. Pass this legislation that\'s three strikes and you\'re out. And then root these guys out of the sport.


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Interesting part \"but there\'s only a few guys that can use it and it\'s the same guys year-in and year-out.\"

 Why? Is it hard to use?