DID KENTUCKY COMMISSION GO OVERBOARD WITH FORTE SCRATCH?

[ploptart]

Imagine how scary it'll be when HISA steps in to control racing integrity.!! Complete chaos at large.

Absolute shit show. They’ll be scratching left and right. Not to mention they want to know your whole training and shoeing regimen.

[Senator Blutarsky]

Absolute shit show. They’ll be scratching left and right. Not to mention they want to know your whole training and shoeing regimen.

Sounds like some fucked up micromanaging, and we're not pussy's for throwing a HISA fit!!

[Calhoun]

Yeah, they went overboard.  Repole and Pletcher got a big helping of "southern hospitality" and got fucked.

Do you think if Forte was a Claiborne horse he gets scratched?  But he's not... he's owned by a loudmouth, new money guy from Brooklyn.

And no way Pletcher runs a lame horse.  No way.  Plus Bramlage -- Pletcher's vet -- and the best there is would never risk his reputation doing so.

jmvhmfo

[Hambletonian46]

This is CDI's week and I guarantee you they did not let one horse race that was not 100%. They did not want one incident. This horse bobbled during his previous work (it was caught on video) and I guess we know why now. Back in the bad old days the standard was racing sound; today with internet and videos everywhere you are not going to take a chance if you are CDI during Derby week.

Which makes those seven deaths even more shocking.

PS Saffie Joseph's goose may be cooked. Having two horses consecutively drop dead would even make Surick blush.

[Senator Blutarsky]

This is CDI's week and I guarantee you they did not let one horse race that was not 100%. They did not want one incident. This horse bobbled during his previous work (it was caught on video) and I guess we know why now. Back in the bad old days the standard was racing sound; today with internet and videos everywhere you are not going to take a chance if you are CDI during Derby week.

Which makes those seven deaths even more shocking.

PS Saffie Joseph's goose may be cooked. Having two horses consecutively drop dead would even make Surick blush.

 

This is a great post, you'll never see in the media said so well, concise and hard to digest true - the perception you need; ending with the dagger in the vampire's heart.  Mic drop...and goodnight!

[Village Idiot]

And now we come to find out that Forte failed a drug test back in September of last year after his Hopeful Win.

[Senator Blutarsky]

And now we come to find out that Forte failed a drug test back in September of last year after his Hopeful Win.

  You're Awesome VILLAGE!!!

Brother Village's BREAKING NEWS!!!

https://www.bloodhorse.com/horse-racing/articles/268535/report-forte-failed-drug-test-after-2022-hopeful

How very interesting, and the #9 post in this thread of my conspiracy theory why Pletcher secretly didn't want FORTE to run muchless win! -  I guess that conspiracy has now aged very well!  If fertile, and he makes it to stud this could make his initial stud fee PLUMMET too!!!  Very nice work Village!   

[Calhoun]

So, Forte had an overage for Meloxicam, a standard theraputic.

I just fucking hate this shit.  The ones who ratted out Pletcher are the old money Jockey Guild guys from Kentucky ... think Phipps, Janney, Shug, etc.... One or more of these guys sits on the New York Racing Board and knew about the positive after the Hopeful.

The postiive test was still under appeal (8 months later ... WTF?? but that's a different issue)...  so, they get denied their due process and Pletcher gets lumped into the "Cheater" category w Baffert, Ness, Saffie and George Santos.

The Kentucky old $$ guys are the main backers of HISA (good for them) and with all the shit at Churchill last week they got fed up and fed Drape/NYTimes the story.

What makes it all even more insidious is that one of Forte's owners Vinny Viola is a member of the Jockey Racing board.  All very incestuous.

Why does it matter?  It matters because Forte - bought for $110,000 -- is already a 4x Grade 1 winner and a Classic win would , I am told, increase his stud value from $10Mil to $15Mil (I'm no expert on the values but believe my friend who is a bloodstock agent). 

Now his value is in question.  A lot of fucking money at stake.

[Senator Blutarsky]

So, Forte had an overage for Meloxicam, a standard theraputic.

I just fucking hate this shit.  The ones who ratted out Pletcher are the old money Jockey Guild guys from Kentucky ... think Phipps, Janney, Shug, etc.... One or more of these guys sits on the New York Racing Board and knew about the positive after the Hopeful.

The postiive test was still under appeal (8 months later ... WTF?? but that's a different issue)...  so, they get denied their due process and Pletcher gets lumped into the "Cheater" category w Baffert, Ness, Saffie and George Santos.

The Kentucky old $$ guys are the main backers of HISA (good for them) and with all the shit at Churchill last week they got fed up and fed Drape/NYTimes the story.

What makes it all even more insidious is that one of Forte's owners Vinny Viola is a member of the Jockey Racing board.  All very incestuous.

Why does it matter?  It matters because Forte - bought for $110,000 -- is already a 4x Grade 1 winner and a Classic win would , I am told, increase his stud value from $10Mil to $15Mil (I'm no expert on the values but believe my friend who is a bloodstock agent). 

Now his value is in question.  A lot of fucking money at stake.

Dude needs to follow the rules, forget about murder - the high crimes, even the smallest infraction like for the rest of us - jaywalking. 

Too late, he made his money, built a post racing empire, now it's time to vanish forever and let the statute of limitations run out and he'll skate for it all.  Otherwise who knows what his future holds, hard to keep partnerships going, and train from prison...

You're right it is horrible and consequential for the owner, and been a BILLION times more for us BETTORS, and NEVER FUCKING ENDS!  We are raging angry, even at the FBI, DOJ, they needed and need to do MORE!   

[Senator Blutarsky]

I try to factor corruption into handicapping, who, cycles, it's really impossible.  This is what the FBI and DOJ does and HAS NOT been doing in RACING as a DETERRENT and a PREVENTIVE!

The FEDS get their leads from a site like Horseplop from our thoughtful contributions, whoever else, and their own radar.

They're called TARGET LETTERS, you receive one and your big dick retracts into your body and your low hanging balls shrivel to a new born baby - and you STOP the bullshit, forever unless you're retarded! 

https://www.burnhamgorokhov.com/criminal-defense-resources/federal-criminal-process/target-letters-from-federal-law-enforcement

[Village Idiot]

Well Pletcher just got suspended (for a whole 10 days... Whoopee) and fined for Forte's positive test last year. What kind of deterrent is that???

[Senator Blutarsky]

Well Pletcher just got suspended (for a whole 10 days... Whoopee) and fined for Forte's positive test last year. What kind of deterrent is that???

Don't U worry we'll be launching a Todd Pletcher thread with direct contacts to his stable and be reporting live, the Pimlico racing secretary who I was seeking out her identity yesterday, and investigative sports journalists....we're gonna have a weenie roast with toddy scumhole!