There s two horses you can t beat. But the fact is, even if you had only one rider, and you had three possible horses to ride in the same race, nothing is farther from the truth. This way, if you ve got two riders, and you ve got the favorite and second favorite with Espinoza, you don t tell a trainer not to enter. I can see where having two riders in some ways has hurt the game. The agents want to get out of here at 10 o clock like everybody else.
Agents are the ones who are going out and plucking horses to help fill the races.
We don t need busting up agents with two riders, or fewer racing days. We need more horses. That is the simplest solution to the immediate problem, and there are two ways to go. The first is to give owners a tax break, like they did in the 1980s. The state, I believe, takes, takes, takes out of every dollar.