OTP OPINION
Talking points: Horsemen and the Novice Ear.
Racing is engaged in a conversational divide. Trending public commentaries implicate that racing is a recklessness to be forced obsolete. The main catalyst provoking such attitudes is an effective use of arbitrary numbers that resonate attentions in the novice ear. “30” being the most recent.
What Racing has learned from Santa Anita is that numbers are powerful adversaries when used out of context. The most recent are the 30 deaths over a single racing season. Radical animal activist’s mantras successfully paint this number abhorrent, calling to ban the sport nationwide.
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