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Brown on integrity: we need to take matters into our own hands

  

“These owners are discouraged, they are disgusted, and some might get out. Almost all will cut down. They just don’t think we have a fair playing field. Three of the very, very biggest owners, probably the three people who control as many quality horses as any entities in the business, made the suggestion that they were going to tell their trainers not to allow their horses to be driven by drivers who drive for this particular trainer (who is believed to be using performance-enhancing drugs on his horses).”
 
— Murray Brown (above), public relations director for Hanover Shoe Farms in Hanover, PA and vice-president and general manager of the Standardbred Horse Sales Company in the fourth in a daily series of quotes pulled from our Round Table Discussion entitled 15 Essential Ideas for Saving Racing. Dave Briggs’ Last Call Online column about the Round Table is available here. The entire Round Table Discussion booklet is available to download as a pdf by following this link and clicking on the “Now Available” item in the bottom left corner of the page.
 
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