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Originally Posted by lawdude
I don't know. But it's at least a possibility. Not directly on point, but just a couple of weeks ago, the New York Times had a splashy story about how the California Horse Racing Board, in a months-long process, secretly buried a positive drug test by Justify, the 2018 Triple Crown Winner. The story got a lot of publicity. But nothing is ultimately being done about it.
One of the great powers that industries and their lobbies have is to simply slow-walk issues until the public forgets about them.
I think the big difference there is no owner/jockey will boycott the triple crown races. The Board there has more power, assuming they are corrupt. The poker community, specifically the players en mass, have more say. If the WSOP sweeps something aside, players are still going to Vegas next summer. A small place like Stones and the pre-existing circumstances of their less than illustrious history with the Commission makes if far more likely it moves forward.
There was a cheater at the wsop years back and nothing came about and they had no downside. Stones and Ca Gaming are much smaller pieces to the piker world than the wsop is.
If a small track allowed a horse to juice with no penalty, they'd struggle to draw real races, sanctioned events, or prestigious owners, trainers, jockeys, etc... Fresno Race Track would likely struggle with allegations far more than Churchill Downs.