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The start of 2021 hasn't been particularly positive for the sport of horse racing, acknowledges Joe Clancy, editor of the
Mid-Atlantic Thoroughbred. A quartet of incidents stand out: the Gordon Elliott photo, the suspension of jockey Alexander Crispin over weight disparities, a trainer with 45 listed medication violations on the ballot for the Hall of Fame, and a horse with two failed drug tests earning an Eclipse Award.
Racing is “at some kind of crossroads, again or still depending on how you look at it,” Clancy wrote in a recent editorial.
“At its core, racing exists because of a public trust,” he continued. “Those outside the industry need to trust that the people inside the industry are doing the right things. The questions are pretty simple.”