Board Does Great Job of Killing Horse Racing

If anybody had any doubt that horse racing would be extinct in a few years, all that doubt was laid to rest Nov. 21. That was when the California Horse Racing Board voted against Hollywood Park’s request to discontinue betting a minute prior to each race. This move was proposed to ensure the integrity of the parimutuel betting system, which was recently rocked by the Breeders’ Cup pick six scandal, and would have completely ensured betting integrity.

Instead of approving of the move, the CHRB vetoed it, citing that “the change is not worth the inconvenience to the relatively few horseplayers that we’ve been able to keep coming to the track.”

Don’t these bureaucrats understand that unless the racing industry begins to implement meaningful changes to the system, horse racing will continue to lose its credibility with the racing public, and will soon go the way of other extinct sporting institutions?

I’ll bet that one of the CHRB’s directors is named Nero.

Jack Wolf

Westwood