JR-- that one is dead on. As for boycotting tracks, I have talked about doing that for years, but at this point events are moving much faster than I could-- there\'s going to be regulation, the only question is whether it\'s productive, counter productive, or much ado about nothing. Major Ky players are running around like chickens without heads getting people signed up to back Federal oversight without having read the current bill or having any idea what they are backing. I\'ve been working with the two major players (Udall\'s office, which wrote the legislation and the Jockey Club, which has put out a sensible plan) to get them to include forcing tracks to publish drug test results. Hopefully it will happen.
The other thing that would help-- and I can\'t figure out to implement it-- would be instead of adding money to purses, to use that money to subsidize expenses for owners. That would keep more of them in the game and dis-incentivize bad behavior.
