Not just for profit and love, PETA believes that ownership of pets is akin to slavery, euthanization is actually setting the animals free.

Well written and I wish you luck with the filly. You are correct . Most of my time was spent at Class C tracks where the horses are treated like a throwaway toy . Yet unfortunately that is the majority of tracks racing in the USA today.

The racing in other countries that actually implement rules and do things correctly are most impressive. I've seen the horses you speak of come here and win . Trained correctly . Yet here in our country I seriously doubt any of those trainers would have long term success. Hence that is where the problem sits.

The guys using enhancers force the guys who are not out of an even playing field. Kinda of a if ya can't beat em join em situation.

I don't know the answers . What I do know is as long as the tracks and the state agencies allow this stuff to continue. The sport will eventually have zero credibility. As far as the rise in handle you speak of . I have seen the numbers and they certainly are not large enough in my opinion to say the sport is coming back or gaining traction again .

I know next to nothing about the horse racing industry but I always had the impression that the industry was shady. The parallels to MMA seem relevant.

The industry likely needs a bunch of rich people to bailout the industry by buying an effective monopoly and then work hard to clean it up. By controlling the biggest tracks and letting the public know that betters are getting a fair shake then it stands to reason that more betters would lay money down. Banning/Suspending horses whom test dirty for PEDs would force owners to do the right thing and would swiftly remove the bad trainers from the industry.

but there's no money in that so why would they?

look at boxing. the biggest stage, under the biggest lights, with just two guys, one ref and three judges, meaning there is obvious public-facing accountability for decisions and yet we still see absolute nonsense like Deontay Wilder losing 10 rounds to Tyson Fury and being a winner on one judges card, splitting the fight in a draw overall.

nothing is ever said or done about these things because the judges were obviously ordered to make sure lucrative fight number 2 happened.

You're fake news.... Tyson fury lost that fight.

Even if you don’t count the knockout, Fury still lost.

I am so confused. Are we still talking about Daniel Negreanu?

Interesting podcast https://www.peta.org/features/peta-p....url.id=207872

Nope: loosely because he is an animal lover and we are surprised he has not started a ballot initiative to ban horse racing. Although he is from Canada where horse racing is like the NFL.

Danny is very uninteresting anyways .

Is the NFL popular in Canada?

Yes

But horse racing isnt

Seems Daniel is being all loosey goosey on Twitter

He was already being embarrassingly petty about the Chip Race podcast winning a meaningless GPI award, but now he's melting down lmao

You would have to post it here as many of us are blocked.

I don't read twitter, gotta say your post is hilarious

What started it though?

* Daniel posted a (now deleted) tweet about certain player traits being "cancer". He received a lot of backlash.

* Dara O'Kearny wrote a blog post criticizing Daniel for this, among other things. The thumbnail image was Daniel's infamous blackface snafu.

* Daniel called it a hatchet job and dismissed Dara as a troll.

* Later, Dara and his co-host David Lappin won a GPI award for best podcast. On the broadcast, Daniel was visibly disgusted and said "ewww".

* Daniel went on Twitter and made vague passive-aggressive comments (as he often does), questioning the winner selection process.

* Later, Daniel went on his own podcast and said that Dara and David are just trolls, and that he has an inside GPI source that says their win is not legitimate.

* The Chip Race Podast twitter account says it doesn't want the award if Daniel's "rigged" claims are true, tagging PokerStars and GPI.

* David tweets something similar, tagging Eric Danis to inform him that Daniel has accused him of impropriety.

* Daniel gets very angry and resorts to more name calling, as seen in the image I posted earlier.

And here we are!

Real Housewives of Poker

....smh

The jurors on the GPI Awards were:

Eric Danis
Frank Op de Woerd
William Shillibier
Mario Ho
Jamie Kerstetter
Benjamin Erwin
Brad Owen
David Tuchman

I'm not sure which ones Daniel is alleging to have rigged the vote. It would have to be a majority of them, I imagine.

I tweeted at most of them asking for some clarification, but received no response. Eric Danis, who is one of the jurors and also president of the GPI, has said that nothing improper happened.

Just a communications error.

Daniel act like a petulant child....I'm shocked.

Maria Ho No Mo