Repole Stable

REPOLE. UNSCRIPTED.

Part 1 of my podcast with @jonathanstettin @PastTheWire is out and already making noise!!!!!

Passion, frustration, some craziness, and a whole lot of TRUTH!!!!!

I said what needed to be said about what’s wrong with horse racing. And I’m confident 90%+ of the industry agrees with me.

The People’s Commissioner doesn’t sugarcoat anything.

Like me, hate me, ENJOY.

BUCKLE UP!!!!! 🔥

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They can keep their fancy titles, lifetime board seats, endless committee meetings, meaningless press releases, industry awards, pheasant hunting trips, and 30 years of excuses.

We’ll take the late nights, hard work, bold ideas, real leadership, and transformational changes!!!!!

This game needs to be for EVERYONE!!!!! Every track, every trainer, every owner, every breeder, every horseplayer, and every fan. From the highest level to the lowest level. EVERYONE matters!!!!!

My goal is simple.

Grow the pie for EVERYONE, not fight over a bigger piece of a smaller and smaller pie. 🐎💪

👀👀 @jockeyclub @hisa_us @BreedersCup @keeneland @ChurchillDowns

So many problems with this entire horse racing ecosystem. Watching these great mares below being bought by Japanese buyers, knowing their future foals may never race in the United States, isn’t just sad. It’s devastating to American breeding and racing!!!!!

For the last 25 years, we’ve watched some of the best mares and female families in the world leave this country. You don’t just weaken the brand. You weaken the breed. And eventually, you DESTROY the breed!!!!! Great mares and strong female families are the FOUNDATION of a great breed. Not breeding the same stallion 300 times a year. That’s not strengthening the breed. That’s weakening it!!!!!

Now throw in a declining foal crop, fewer quality mares, and the same pathetic leadership from the @jockeyclub, Breeders’ Cup, and Keeneland (three organizations that might as well be ONE). And of course, let’s not forget @hisa_us, which the Jockey Club helped create, making it harder and harder for great horsemen to keep horses healthy and get them to the starting gate. We’ve reached the point where the Breeders’ Cup is becoming more about who’s NOT running and who’s getting scratched than who’s actually racing. Seriously, what the hell are we doing?????

I’m also starting to dig into the Kentucky vets and the Kentucky racing regulators responsible for overseeing them. I have a lot of questions, and I’m looking forward to getting some answers.

As Shakespeare might say, SOMETHING IS ROTTEN IN LEXINGTON!!!!!

And your People’s Commissioner, Mike from Queens, is just getting started!!!!!

My legal bills over the last year are now higher than my training bills. 🤦‍♂️😂

And you know what???

It’s the best money I’ve ever spent fighting for the people of this industry and the future of American horse racing!!!!!

WHAT THE F$&K ARE WE DOING???

Apparently horse racing isn’t complicated enough!!!!!

@hisa_us voted UNANIMOUSLY to continue allowing Lasix for horses 3 and older in non-stakes races. Their own scientific review found no evidence supporting the claim that Lasix is a performance-enhancing drug.

But the @BreedersCup decides that at their event, even ALLOWANCE horses can’t use Lasix???

So a horse can use Lasix in an allowance race on a normal racing day @Keeneland, but NOT during Breeders’ Cup weekend???

We have the top trainers, owners, and best horsemen in the game, and close to 20% of the horses entered will end up scratched by the time this weekend is over!!!!!

Put these same horses ion a Wednesday card at Aqueduct, and I bet 95% of them are running!!!!!

So apparently, horses that are healthy enough to run during the week aren’t good enough to run on Breeders’ Cup weekend???

TOTAL BULLSHIT!!!!!

The @jockeyclub, Breeders’ Cup, and HISA don’t give a shit about trainers, horseman, jockeys, horseplayers, fans, etc.

Same old insiders making the same old bullshit decisions!!!!!

With these organizations, it seems like OPTICS, POLITICS AND BULLSHIT COME FIRST.

HORSES SECOND.

HORSEMEN LAST!!!!!

CAN SOMEBODY EXPLAIN WHAT THE F$&K THE BREEDERS’ CUP IS DOING???

Thinking about putting these hats into production!!!!! 😂😂🤣

What if I sold them and gave EVERY DOLLAR to Thoroughbred aftercare???

HOW MUCH COULD WE RAISE???

$1 MILLION??? $10 MILLION???
$1 BILLION???

WHO WOULD BUY ONE??? 🐎💪