TDN Writers' Room Podcast, Episode 27: March 11, 2020 with guest Tom Morley

Of course, the podcast conversation this week focuses on the doping scandal sweeping racing, and trainer Tom Morley joins the conversation to talk about the trainers whose lives have been affected by those now accused by the U.S. Attorney's Office of doping their horses. It's one for the ages, on the TDN podcast.

The TDN Writer's Room podcast, presented each week by Keeneland, pulled no punches as the writers covered all aspects of the indictments for horse doping of 27 people announced Monday by the U.S. Attorney's Office for the Southern District of New York. The dialogue included a combination of passion, anger and bewilderment on a story that has rocked the industry.

“The big shock is not the scandal itself. The big shock is not that these guys were drugging horses and cheating,” said Joe Bianca who kicked off the News of the Week segment sponsored by West Point Thoroughbreds. “The big shock is that there were ever any consequences to come from it. In most scandals in other sports, when something blows up, you are surprised at what was happening. This time it was 'Oh my God, they finally got these guys.' Shout out to the FBI and the U.S. Attorney's office because they did something that racing has had a chance to do for a long time and has done a poor job of, which is policing itself. So I guess it was good that law enforcement came in and did racing's dirty for them and caught these guys.”

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