All the kerfuffle last weekend over what was said between the trainer and owner of More Joyous has resulted in even more comment and editorialising than usual over the relationship between gambling and sport.
Now, don't get me wrong, that's a debate worth having, but it's certainly not worth having over horse-racing. Does anybody really regard horse-racing as a sport? It's surely only ever been a vehicle (non-pun intended) for gambling. Who keeps up with who's winning the jockey's championship or which is the leading stable and I'm only assuming that records of these things actually exist. They sure aren't reported on. Ironically, if they do exist, the only people outside the industry who could tell you about them would be the gamblers.
Whenever horse-racing is reported on in the sports news, it's not accompanied by any league ladder or speed/time results - they just tell you how much money you'd have won had you backed the winner or the top 3. Imagine the football results being given by only showing you the the pick-the-score and pick-the-margins dividends.
If horse racing is a sport, let's start seeing it in the news without the gambling information. After all, they don't announce the lottery results in the sports segment, do they?
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