Just as predicted, HISA is a sorry expensive mess.

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Just as predicted, HISA is a sorry expensive mess.

Postby steward » Tue Dec 13, 2022 3:42 pm

Good intentions that create a new federal bureaucracy always end up like this. Pure bloat.

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Re: Just as predicted, HISA is a sorry expensive mess.

Postby madelyn » Thu Dec 15, 2022 8:12 am

Like a lot of ideas, its success was entirely reliant on its implementation. Its oligarchic overpaid structure was the first mistake and it went on to self-destruct.
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Another Bloodhorse article

Postby steward » Thu Dec 15, 2022 3:56 pm

I especially agree with this sentence: " 'Gotcha' chemistry— finding a substance in single-digit picograms (parts per trillion) because today's advance testing can—that ensnares innocent parties is not helpful. " (That is aimed at the powers that be which made a mountain out of a molehill when sanctioning Baffert's KD win, unnecessarily creating suspicion of our sport over a beneficial action that was fully documented.)

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Re: Just as predicted, HISA is a sorry expensive mess.

Postby Tappiano » Sun Dec 18, 2022 1:33 pm

Bob isn't a first time offender though, is he?
Bob's never accepted responsibility for anything that goes on in his shedrow, whether he knowingly allowed it to happen or not. Aren't trainers ultimately responsible for the horses in their care?
All that aside, this was never going to work because states don't want to give up rights and without some kind of standard it isn't going to matter.

This industry can't even agree to a standard ownership registration process. Even if you go through the racing compact, not every state will accept it and every state still requires a fee and a visit "in person" to have your picture taken.

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Re: Just as predicted, HISA is a sorry expensive mess.

Postby madelyn » Thu Dec 22, 2022 9:20 am

Actually KY now will accept an online registration and you can call in and upload a selfie...
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Re: Just as predicted, HISA is a sorry expensive mess.

Postby Joltman » Wed Dec 28, 2022 4:10 pm

"oligarchic overpaid structure" The essence of horse racing?
Run the race - the one that's really worth winning.

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Re: Just as predicted, HISA is a sorry expensive mess.

Postby madelyn » Thu Dec 29, 2022 12:30 pm

The entire premise of HISA is doomed to fail. In the way that "Justice is Blind", rule makers and governors put in place, like HISA, should be knowledgeable and impartial. They should be compensated in accordance with others in similar positions in other agencies. They should be incorruptible and unable to be easily influenced. NONE of that is how HISA is organized.
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Re: Just as predicted, HISA is a sorry expensive mess.

Postby Joltman » Sat Dec 31, 2022 6:16 pm

That pretty much summarizes it...
Run the race - the one that's really worth winning.