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Should only be 30 days to begin with like it used to be. Not saying this is worthy of the Supreme Court, but I do wonder if an arbitrary rule this would pass constitutional muster if challenged in court. May also be in violation of restraint of trade laws.
When I was an owner in NJ we were charged sales tax if during the year it was a horse claimed for the first time. What most of us did was if charged tax we would drop into claimers like $50-$60K and put a price tag on the horse to cover the tax. Example claim a horse for $50K drop in the next time for $54,000. You would hope higher price horses entered for $60K so we didn’t get post 9 or 10.
Thank you ! Finally someone who gets it. I keep saying to myself I do know the concern of a horse shortage if someone comes in with big money and claims horses and leaves immediately for another track. But to tell me I can’t sell my horse or what class to enter in I have a BIG problem with. That has to maybe be race tampering or fixing by not allowing a person who is flooding the 60 day rule but not being allowed to enter in the class of their choice. Seems like race fixing or highly illegal but what do I know?
So, I am an owner and race horses at e.g. Northeast tracks (Yonkers, Meadowlands, Plainridge, Pocono etc.) I claim a horse at Hoosier. How are they going to stop me from racing that horse at another track within 60 days?? Is this reciprocal? Will Scott Warren tell me I can't race at the Meadowlands??
That was a great strategy. But how do you feel about after=you claim a horse being told what class to race him at or tuff shut? That is the one that I really don’t understand how the race secretary can get away with. I look at it like you buy a restaurant and the city coming in and telling you that you cannot charge $5 for a slice of pizza. I’m like wtf? How can they allow any race secretary to interfere with their business investments?
Generally it is not the race secretary. It is written into the rules of racing from the commission. They changed the rules too where you had to raise them up in some jurisdictions because some do gooders got congress people ears and made them believe the rent a horse thing was bad for horses
Again I have no problem with the raising up but Hoosier is the only place that won’t allow you to raise up or lower any more than two levels. Now where is that bullshit coming from? I should be able to raise up twenty levels if that’s what I want to do. And I should be able to lower a 40k claimed to 5k claimed if that’s what I want to do. This shit is ridiculous and it’s race fixing in my opinion and also interfering with my bus8ness investment.
why are you worried you own nothin u fckin idiot
I should be able to raise up twenty levels if that’s what I want to do. And I should be able to lower a 40k claimed to 5k claimed if that’s what I want to do.
Do you or anyone also feel that way about qualifying races?Like the flats, should the trainer be able to enter anytime he thinks the horse is ready? I know this has been brought up at USTA meetings.
I do. If the trainer enters the horse short or not ready, well then he is wasting his time and the owners money. I dont feel he is truly hurting anyone else.
