Floetl Letter to the Editor

BRIAN FLOETL
In regard to Fred Pope’s letter to the editor concerning IHA approval clause: 
Elimination of the IHA approval clause would render horseman a toothless dog in any fight to negotiate a fair contract. 
Without the ability to withhold a signal, tracks could simply say take it or leave it. Leaving horsemen powerless to the whims of track owners. 
I believe that power was written into the law, so that tracks and horsemen maintain a partnership and not a slave and master relationship. 
One needs only to look at CHDN current demands of the horsemen in Illinois to understand why the ITHA approval clause needs to left intact.