Hall Of Junkies

This article relates to a blog that I read the other day (the horse jockey.com). This blog states issues about thoroughbred jockey better known as P-Val.

The blog tells us about P-Val's issues and how better off we'd be to let Louisiana have him. Again here we go and this includes baseball football or any other sports. The US Congress just had a hearing about drugs in athlete's.

There findings and remarks were as bad as most jocks. They talk like they have as much of a drug or alcohol problem as the ones they were talking to. There demeanor showed that it does no harm to anyone except to the people taking the stuff whether it be drugs alcohol or what ever. My question is what about the people? Yes the people.

Were going to start off with horse racing. Now I don't know much about it but I'm going to give it a try. We have a horse and he runs in a race, he wins and then after the race the horse goes to the test barn and the state vet removes blood and urine. This sample is then sent to the testing lab which they test for drugs ect. Usually in about 48 hrs the test results are then sent to the stewards if it's a bad test. The trainer and the barn vet are then called in to face the consequences.

Usually if its a minor offence they'll be a fine and the horse might be removed from were it finished the trainer and sometimes the barn vet can get fined and maybe days that all depends who wants to bend over, for example a horse wins and pays $60.00 test shows cocaine in the horses system, the trainer explains to the stewards he had a cocaine problem and he snorted it over the horses feed tub and that was how it got in the horses system.

The stewards buy this, the trainer gets fined and a 30 day suspension, horse is placed last from the race he won, loss of purse, and of course the gamblers which is the public all the bets were lost, so everyone looses except that trainer and owner we all know the trainer bet the horse. If a test comes up with real bad drugs like cocaine you usually get ruled off for years, not this case as you can see. Maybe its because who it was! OK we now have a scenario we can follow.

We start with the many great jockeys which have admitted on tvg or hrtv which many do (seems funny I guess were suppose to feel sorry for them). "A recent quote" Life was so tough I had to go to drugs meantime every week he'd go pickup a $500.000 check for the weeks riding tough? (pinhead) We find ourselfs allowing the so called hall of fame athletes to use their drugs to establish their young career and continue on using drugs to perform to profit even after being caught so many many times.

P=Val being caught at least 100 times reinstated atleast 100 times and in the meantime being able to make 5 million a year. Jerry Bailey admits being a drunk after his career is nearly over meantime he buids his career as a drunken jockey nothin but another drunken rider.

/Pat Day,Bill Shoemaker ect the list goes on but not all jocks are like this. Back to the issue if a horse can be put last and loose the monies earned (bad test)why shouldn't the rider have the same penalty for the whole day he rode all day loaded if he came to work being loaded (drugs)it should be for all the races he rode win or loose dq all the horses?

The other point is I don't ever remember reading in the daily racing form or the program that this rider rides with medication ie alcohol or cocaine or other drugs, just like horse medication "bute,lasix". The downfall is the public doesn't get there money back on bad tests weather it be the horse or athelete owner, trainer. The trainer doesn't care if you cheat its your life just bring home the money (not all trainers and owners are like this).

Oh they say they test the jocks meantime one jock pisses for the other jock. The bottom line is that many trainers know who does what because there usually in the same bar. Another point is throughout the years the pinheads make there careers while on there junk and at the same time destroy other jockeys careers. To make it simple have you ever tried keeping up with some one on drugs or that was drunk?

There is no try outs for being a jockey there is only who's ass your going to kiss and how many drinks or how much cocaine is available, they race like wild men on million dollar horses, they use there drugs to be all they can be. The baseball football and the other sport millionaire's step up to the plate loaded upto the gill some times blowing up and looking like the hulk one way or another they push all the real athletes back.

The ones that are respectable and honest with good ethics are pushed back to end of the line. They spend many years trying out to accomplish a natural ability to perform until the dope heads come along and push them back to the end of the line. The idea of a jock of any kind thinking they have have the right to be ingenious to there fellow athletes ,the public and the world means there should be no second chance.

All the commisions do is continue to do nothing but spank them or is it the other way around? The congress was reveiwing these issues of athletes only to reject real issues the president demanded them to take care for our nations interest instead the Dem ran off for there weekly drunk, this athlete issue was a commision issue not a congress issue.

I find myself saying to my children the athletes these days are nothing but rich drug addicts drunken fools with excuses on how they cheated everyone to get were there at and remember the best athletes are the ones that are at home with their families living a real life they are our athletic heros.

Todays established athletes have played there fellow jocks and the world and are teaching the young many bad things and the world and the children can only welcome all of todays athletes to THE HALL OF DRUGS AND ALCOHOL CC>northern dancer