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🚨ALERT, MUST READ, LONG POST.
HORSE RACING’S BILLION-DOLLAR DISGRACE AND THE PUPPET MASTERS BEHIND IT!!!!!
HOW MUCH POWER CAN ONE LAW FIRM HAVE OVER AN ENTIRE INDUSTRY???
Let me introduce everyone to STOLL KEENON OGDEN and BILL LEAR!!!!!
Bill Lear is chairman emeritus of Stoll Keenon Ogden, a Jockey Club steward, a Keeneland trustee and one of the principal draftsmen of the legislation behind @hisa_us. In my opinion, he’s the PUPPET MASTER of the horse racing establishment. And I still question whether this guy knows the difference between a horse’s head and a horse’s ass!!!!!
NOW FOLLOW THE CONNECTIONS!!!!!
Who has represented the @jockeyclub??? STOLL KEENON OGDEN.
@BreedersCup??? STOLL KEENON OGDEN.
@Keeneland??? STOLL KEENON OGDEN.
@TOBAhorses??? STOLL KEENON OGDEN.
@NTRA??? Attorneys from STOLL KEENON OGDEN have handled its legal work.
FIVE supposedly independent organizations, all connected to ONE LAW FIRM!!!!!
And it gets even more ridiculous!!!!!
Drew Fleming, CEO of Breeders’ Cup. Previous employer??? STOLL KEENON OGDEN.
Shannon Arvin, CEO of Keeneland and chair of NTRA. Spent nearly TWO DECADES where??? STOLL KEENON OGDEN.
Sarah Sloan Reeves, Keeneland’s new Chief Legal Officer. More than 15 years where??? STOLL KEENON OGDEN.
Sam Reinhardt, HISA’s General Counsel. Previous employer??? STOLL KEENON OGDEN.
Bill Thomason, former Keeneland CEO and current HISA board member, has also been publicly identified as BILL LEAR’S BROTHER-IN-LAW!!!!!
HISA’s board includes Jockey Club members and former leadership of Keeneland and Breeders’ Cup.
And let’s not forget that the Jockey Club, Breeders’ Cup and NTRA provided millions in loans to HISA. Some of those industry loans have been forgiven!!!!!
DOES LEXINGTON, KENTUCKY ONLY HAVE ONE F$&KING LAW FIRM???
These organizations are NOT INDEPENDENT!!!!!
THIS IS A MASSIVE CONFLICT OF INTEREST!!!!!
IS THIS COLLUSION???
IS THIS MASSIVE CORRUPTION???
IS THIS PREMEDITATED???
IS THIS ENTIRE SYSTEM ARCHITECTED TO CONTROL AN INDUSTRY???
AND NOW LET’S TALK ABOUT THE REAL F$&KING TRAGEDY!!!!!
For 30 years, horse racing has watched opportunities disappear while too much of its leadership has resisted meaningful change.
I believe the industry’s failed leadership, lack of innovation and concentration of power may have cost horse racing BILLIONS AND BILLIONS AND BILLIONS OF DOLLARS IN POTENTIAL GROWTH!!!!!
And I’m not just talking about money!!!!!
I’m talking about racetracks closing. Thousands of lost jobs. Breeders going out of business. Owners leaving the industry. Trainers struggling to survive. Small businesses shutting down. Families losing livelihoods. Entire communities losing an industry they depended on!!!!!
THIRTY YEARS OF LOST OPPORTUNITY AND POTENTIALLY MULTI, MULTI, MULTIBILLION-DOLLAR ECONOMIC DAMAGE!!!!! I HAVE A LAWSUIT PREPARED!!!!! THE TIMING IS MINE!!!!!
I know the people in horse racing are enjoying watching these questions finally get asked!!!!! AND THEY DESERVE ANSWERS!!!!!
If litigation becomes necessary, discovery can bring contracts, correspondence, financial records, depositions and sworn testimony into the process!!!!!
SO HERE’S MY MESSAGE TO BILL LEAR, STOLL KEENON OGDEN AND THE JOCKEY CLUB STEWARDS!!!!!
HORSE RACING IS NOT YOUR PRIVATE F$&KING COUNTRY CLUB!!!!!
THIS INDUSTRY DOESN’T BELONG TO YOU!!!!!
IT BELONGS TO THE OWNERS, BREEDERS, TRAINERS, JOCKEYS, HORSEPLAYERS, FANS AND THE THOUSANDS OF HARDWORKING PEOPLE WHO DEPEND ON IT!!!!!
I’M NOT LOOKING FOR A SETTLEMENT. I’M LOOKING FOR ANSWERS, ACCOUNTABILITY AND AN INDUSTRY THAT FINALLY HAS A FUTURE!!!!!
F$&K YOU AND SUE ME PLEASE!!!!! 🐎💪
This fight isn’t for me. I represent and fight for the 99% of the industry and its future.
Comment, Retweet, Like, to show the crooked clowns how we all really feel!!!!
Speak now or forever hold your peace.
What do you think???
Mike from Queens
The Commish
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The British army once sentenced Daniel Morgan to 500 lashes, a punishment that usually killed a man, for the crime of knocking out an officer who struck him. He survived every stroke. And he spent the rest of his life joking that the drummer had miscounted and only given him 499, so the British still owed him one. He collected that debt at a place called Cowpens.
Morgan was not born to anything. He was a rough, barely educated frontiersman who made his living hauling freight by wagon on the Virginia frontier, a big, powerful, hot-tempered young man. During the French and Indian War, serving as a civilian teamster with the British army, a British lieutenant struck him with the flat of a sword. Morgan answered with his fist and dropped the officer cold. For a colonial to strike a British officer was close to a capital offense, and the court-martial sentenced him to five hundred lashes with the cat-o'-nine-tails, a flogging meant to flay a man and very often to kill him.
They tied him up and laid it on, and Daniel Morgan did not die. He carried the ridged scars on his back for the rest of his life. But instead of breaking him, that brutal punishment forged something. It left him with a cold, permanent hatred of the British army and its contempt for colonial men like him, a hatred he would one day repay with interest. And it gave him his lifelong joke: the drummer lost count and stopped at 499, so the British, he liked to say, were still one lash short of paying him in full.
When the Revolution came, that uneducated wagoner turned out to be a natural soldier of rare gifts. He raised a company of frontier riflemen, crack shots who could kill at distances that terrified British regulars, and he led them north to Saratoga, where his marksmen helped shatter Burgoyne's army and win the turning-point victory of the war. Morgan had a feel for battle that trained European officers lacked, an instinct for ground, for timing, and above all for the men he led. He understood that his militia were not professional soldiers and could not be asked to do what professionals did, so instead of cursing them for it, he built his tactics around what they could do.
That genius reached its peak at the Battle of Cowpens in January 1781, one of the most perfectly fought battles in American history. Facing the dreaded Banastre Tarleton, Morgan set a trap built entirely on human nature. He put his unreliable militia in the front line and asked them only for two volleys, then permission to fall back, which they gladly did. Tarleton's British, seeing the Americans retreat, charged forward in a confident rush straight into Morgan's real line of hardened Continentals, and then Morgan sprang the jaws, hitting the British on both flanks at once in a double envelopment while his cavalry rode down their rear. In minutes Tarleton's command was destroyed, hundreds killed and captured, one of the most crushing and complete victories of the war, and Tarleton himself barely escaped. It was the frontier wagoner out-generaling the darlings of the British army.
So the debt was paid. The boy they tried to flog to death grew up to be the man who methodically dismantled the British in the field, who understood soldiers because he had been treated like dirt as one, and who turned the hard lessons of his own back into some of the finest tactics the Revolution ever saw. Remember Daniel Morgan. The British gave him 499 lashes and made an enemy who never forgot, and he collected the last one at Cowpens, with interest.
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Day 3 of the Keeneland Sale is in the books.
Pretty boring. No drama whatsoever.
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Just another friendly battle between the Repole Good Guys and the Evil Empire!!!!! 😂
Thank you, @RealBackstretch, for telling the real stories of the real people who, when given a fair chance, make this game great. I’m a huge fan of your content.
If you truly love horse racing, whether you’re a casual fan, a $2 horseplayer, a small owner, trainer or breeder, you NEED to listen to this powerful interview with Samantha.
Her story touched me. It inspired me. And it reminded me exactly why I refuse to shut up, sit down or stop fighting.
I’ve said it many times: I’m fighting for horse racing’s next 100 years, not to protect the same people who have controlled its last 100.
This isn’t about me. My fight is for people like Samantha.
If horse racing ever wants to become BIG again, it needs to start protecting the SMALL. Unfortunately, too many of our so-called leaders either don’t understand that, or simply don’t care.
We need more opportunities, better programs and REAL respect for small owners, trainers, breeders, everyday horseplayers, the hardworking people this industry employs and every fan who loves this game!!!!!
Without them, there is no game. Period.
Thank you, Samantha. ♥️
You reminded the People’s Commissioner exactly who he is fighting for.
If you’re at the sale tomorrow, please come find me. I’d be honored to meet you and say hello.
The Commish
We met Samantha Kamen at Keeneland. She’s a small breeder who does the work herself, from caring for her mares to raising their foals.
Talking with Samantha brought us right back to the human side of this game. Behind every horse are people who show up every day because they care. Those are the Real Players whose stories we love to tell.
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UConn history, told by someone who’s had a front-row seat to so much of it. 📖 🐺
Join us tomorrow at The Gampel Collection as longtime UConn beat writer David Borges signs copies of UConn Men’s Basketball: An Illustrated Timeline.
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Come through, meet David and celebrate the stories that built UConn basketball. 💙
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Dear @WhiteHouse, my name is Rodney Smith Jr., founder of Raising Men & Women Lawn Care Service in Huntsville, Alabama. Through our 50 Yard Challenge, over 6,000 kids across the country have signed up to mow free lawns for the elderly, disabled, veterans, active-duty military, first responders, and single parents. With America celebrating its 250th birthday this year and me also being born on July 4th, I wanted to humbly ask if a few kids from our program and myself could travel to Washington, D.C. to help mow the White House lawn for this historic celebration.
More than anything, I want these kids to see how a simple act of service something as ordinary as mowing a lawn for someone in need can lead to extraordinary places. What better lesson in community service than showing them that helping others can take them all the way to our nation’s capital? I’d also love to bring my American flag-themed mower in hopes that the President might sign it, so I can later auction it off and donate 100% of the proceeds to a nonprofit supporting veterans. It would be a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to highlight the importance of service, patriotism, and the impact young people can have when they choose to make a difference. 🇺🇸
Incredible story about an incredible man.
At 100 years old, WWII veteran Bernie Smoot still drives his convertible Ford Mustang to play golf five days a week, shoots in the low 80s and shares wisdom from 74 years in the game: “You live to play golf. But to reach my age, you play golf to live.”
To celebrate Bernie — who landed at Omaha Beach just months after graduating high school — his PGA Coach and friend Jeff Maynor organized a tournament in his honor at the University of Maryland Golf Course, where Bernie plays five days a week.
Maynor, the course’s PGA Director of Golf, has run a @PGAHOPE program there for Veterans since 2019, which Bernie loves to support. The tournament for Bernie was a chance for those Veterans to thank him and celebrate his love for the game.
Proud to honor all of those men & women who made the ultimate sacrifice to preserve the freedoms bestowed upon us. May God bless each & every one of them. 🙏
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