The biggest beef was the Jocks room was turned into a restricted area,(no more friends and family allowed to enter). This is why "The dutys of  Scale Clerks"were questioned, because they were the ones policing this new rule.

A full time jockey valet seems deserving for an "A" track.  You're right though what irks them, it's definitely a leverage move.  It might even go deeper than that, where something big, underlying has not been discussed and can't be publicly.

Maybe the jocks want a bigger CAW profit, after all it is NYRA 

  I've been hearing that nonsense for 25 years!   

Yeah, but now, IT'S REAL

...it's time to start protecting local jurisdictions from the big owners.

Wanna protect little guys from big owners?  First thing to do would be going back to the rules of the 90's when trainers could have a 1 and a 1A in races unless clear and total separate ownership.  Under those rules big stables might have 5 horses with common ownership qualify for a race but they would have to pick two to actually drop in the box. Not many people want to watch a big race with half the entries from one trainer. And not many trainers want to have their one horse racing in a field with 5 horses from one barn either. The large trainer entries work together as a team to set the race up for their "chosen" horse. They can run the little guy out of the gate. Take a sacrifice horse and run him to the half. Hang him out. Box him it.  Its just inherently unfair. It should be changed. Doing so would certainly redistribute some talented stock and help prevent the money from using their money to dominate everything pretty much everywhere.

Today's Carryovers 12/6/25
+ 8:02 PM R3 Charles Town
Jackpot PK6: $56,856
+ 3:45 PM R4 Fair Grounds
PK6: $49,693
+ 2:49 PM R6 Gulfstream Park
Jackpot PK6: $45,830
+ 9:41 PM R3 Los Alamitos QH
PK6: $38,538
+ 8:32 PM R4 Charles Town
PK5: $33,362
+ 7:55 PM R5 Turfway Park
Jackpot PK6: $18,596
+ 37 MIN R3 Caymanas
PK9: $17,920
+ 3:33 PM R6 Woodbine TBred
Jackpot PK6: $12,959
+ 2:30 PM R5 Tampa Bay Downs
Jackpot PK6: $7,454
+ 7:50 PM R6 Northfield Park (H)
PK5: $5,060
+ 8:34 PM R8 Northfield Park (H)
PK6: $3,638
+ 1:27 PM R4 Laurel
Jackpot PK6: $2,645
+ 32 MIN R1 UK Wolverhampton
PK6: $1,486
+ 6:00 PM R1 Batavia Downs (H)
PK5: $834
+ 3:20 PM R5 Hawthorne Harness
PK5: $604
+ 92 MIN R3 UK Wolverhampton
PK4: $455
+ FIN R1 UK Chepstow
PK6: $451
+ FIN R3 IRE Navan
PK4: $104

Until he retires why would Ford ever resign?   

I agree Mike just wants to be heard. Anyway I have a friend that has a horse at Mark Ford’s multimillion dollar farm. I’m taking a ride up there with him today hopefully Mark will be there.