Meadowlands To Require Training Information

[LVGaryD]

A hearing has been scheduled for Saturday, regarding the drive of Bee A Magician in the 2nd race at The Meadowlands on Friday night. Meadowlands Chairman Jeff Gural was flabbergasted by what transpired and believes the betting public needs to be protected. The matter will be investigated and a course of action regarding this race will proceed accordingly.  A hearing has been scheduled with Brian Sears for later today.  After the conclusion of the hearing with , an update will be offered to our customers and the industry. In addition, a meeting of the drivers and trainers has been scheduled for 6:15 this evening where this matter will most certainly be spoken about.

Mr. Gural made it clear to Bee A Magician’s trainer Richard “Nifty” Norman that the effort put forth on the racetrack was unacceptable and to Mr. Norman’s credit he understood and agreed that it was a mistake for Brian Sears to drive the horse so conservatively although because the horse had been tying up he did tell Brian to try not to race her on the front end.

After consulting with and at the suggestion of several trainers that Mr. Gural spoke with, it has been decided that going forward every trainer will be obligated to give the race office an update on how the horse they are entering has been training so that information can be provided to our customers, who are the betting public.  Without them, we would not exist and they must be protected.  The information will be printed in our live program and will be available on our website as well.

Effective immediately, all trainers that have entered horses to race at The Meadowlands will be required to supply a comment regarding how their horse trained a minimum of 72 hours prior to the race day and that report will be included in the live race program and will be accessible in the “race review” portion of The Meadowlands website.  It is expected that all trainers with horses racing on Friday will submit an update on how their horse trained no later than 5:00 P.M. Tuesday and horses entered for Saturday are required to have their update submitted no later than 5:00 P.M. Wednesday.

All trainers are to submit the update on how their horse trained to the email address trainers@playmeadowlands.com. 

In the event a trainer does not have e-mail access, he is asked to provide the update over the phone to The Meadowlands race office. If a trainer does not provide the necessary information, the race office will call the trainer until he/she is reached.

This policy is being implemented to protect the betting public as they are the reason we are all here.  We thank the horsemen for their anticipated cooperation in this matter.
 
 
Darin Zoccali
Director of Racing Operations


 

[beans and weenies]

OMG   I hope no one turns is a "my horse trained awesome He's ready" report and then finish last . 

[careless hal]

OMG   I hope no one turns is a "my horse trained awesome He's ready" report and then finish last . 

     He still could tie up, get spooked, step on a rock    Should be interesting.
Or, could go the other way. 

[LVGaryD]

Presiding Judge John Tomasello has informed Meadowlands Racetrack management that driver Brian Sears has been suspended for 15 days for "lack of judgment in his driving performance," pertaining to his drive of Bee A Magician in the second race on Friday night at The Meadowlands.  No other details were made available at this time.
 
Darin Zoccali


Editor's note: Sears should appeal this. He would certainly win. And I want a whole lot more drivers suspended for 'lack of judgement'. If every driver drove correctly, I'd be a wealthy, wealthy man.

[tonyb147]

What's next? Weekly weigh-in, horse's cholesterol and red blood cell counts, last time the horse went to the dentist, consistency of the horse's poop?

Pretty obvious Gural doesn't like Sears, but now he's gotta suspend driving god MILLER for the same type of drive on JK Endofanera?

 

[pezz97]

What's next? Weekly weigh-in, horse's cholesterol and red blood cell counts, last time the horse went to the dentist, consistency of the horse's poop?

Pretty obvious Gural doesn't like Sears, but now he's gotta suspend driving god MILLER for the same type of drive on JK Endofanera?

 

And Andy Miller and Scott Zeron for there "effort" in race 3 last night. What joke...

[Jeremy]

What happens if two drivers get into a speed duel in the first half and fade to 9th and 10th?

No point of even racing anymore.  Have the trainers put their horse in the race they see fit and award the race based on Trackmaster's Power Ratings.

[LVGaryD]

After discussions with representatives of the Standardbred Breeders and Owners Association, The Meadowlands has decided to delay its implementation of the trainers reports on each horses condition until a meeting with the SBOANJ takes place.  The purpose of the meeting is to determine the most effective and efficient way of implementing such a program.

We want to be clear that this program is designed to provide as much information to the betting public as possible with the purpose of protecting that betting public. This should be viewed as an experiment with the end goal in mind being the protection of our customers, the wagering public.  In thoroughbred racing horses have individual workouts that are timed, given designations to describe how the horse was ridden and then that information is published in the Daily Racing Form.  Furthermore, the clockers have taken it a step further by providing "clockers reports", in which they give their opinion on each workout they see.  This idea we are trying to implement follows the same line of thinking. We are simply trying to provide information on how a horse is doing, that maybe doesn't show up in a program.

We will update everyone further after we meet with the SBOANJ.
 
Darin Zoccali


Editor's note: Maybe common sense will prevail? I hope Sears appeals all the way to federal court....and wins.

[CyberChamp]

What's next? Weekly weigh-in, horse's cholesterol and red blood cell counts, last time the horse went to the dentist, consistency of the horse's poop?

Pretty obvious Gural doesn't like Sears, but now he's gotta suspend driving god MILLER for the same type of drive on JK Endofanera?

 

My thoughts, exactly!   

[CyberChamp]

Gural probably put some money on BAM and lost.

Even I knew that BAM was vulnerable in that race.  She hasn't looked right in recent weeks.

[The Skipper]

I think Jeff has lost his mind, he isn't getting his way with the slots and it's killing him. I'm all for looking out for the fans/bettors but this dude is getting more loopy by the day and I sent them off a nast email and this is the 1st time I got no reply    What do you expect with his initials being J.G. , everyone that has those initials are total assholes 

[careless hal]

I think Jeff has lost his mind, he isn't getting his way with the slots and it's killing him. I'm all for looking out for the fans/bettors but this dude is getting more loopy by the day and I sent them off a nast email and this is the 1st time I got no reply   

[/ What do you expect with his initials being J.G. , everyone that has those initials are total assholes 
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Everyone?   
When everyone was singing Gural's praises  I sounded the warning alarm about him.  He may like harness racing, but he likes himself more.  Betting is a risk and sometimes things don't work out.  Often there is a reason for a bad drive and often it is that the horse should have been scratched. 

[CyberChamp]

BREAKING NEWS:

Jeff Gural has suspended both Andrew Luck and Payton Manning from driving at the Meadowlands due to failure to properly disclose their health issues earlier in the season.

Also, Ronda Rousey has been suspended for "lack of effort" in her fight over the weekend. He issued a statement indicating that her lack of effort was unacceptable and that the betting public deserves answers.

Rumors that Gural lost a large sum of money on Indy, Denver, Rousey, and Bee A Magician have not been substantiated.

On another note, Jen Bongiorno is as hot as ever. The Miss Hot to Trot pageant has been cancelled for 2016 because Jen would receive 98% of the votes.

[beans and weenies]

 

[careless hal]

On another note, Jen Bongiorno is as hot as ever. The Miss Hot to Trot pageant has been cancelled for 2016 because Jen would receive 98% of the votes.

Was thrilled to hear how often you bet on horses driven by her bro and all the money you won on them!