"It's just a horse race"
The Horse Racing Industry is in disarray. A few weeks ago I was going write a kind of bucolic piece about my experiences being in a quarter horse partnership and spending some time on the back stretch at Hialeah Park. Then twenty seven folks were indicted including Jason Servis and Jorge Navarro trainers of Maximum Security and X Y Jet respectively. Maximum Security won the Kentucky Derby but was disqualified, X Y Jet won the Golden Shaheen in Dubai in 2019. From the Washington Post: As FBI agents raided barns in Florida, federal prosecutors in Manhattan unveiled charges that paint Navarro and others not as reverent caretakers but ruthless cheats who gamed the system to administer performance-enhancing drugs with names such as “monkey” and “red acid” to their horses. Those drugs and others, prosecutors said, were engineered to avoid detection by regulators and net the conspirators untold millions of dollars — all to the detriment of the animals, dozens of w...