tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8711985.post117078834912097331..comments2024-03-05T05:38:22.024-05:00Comments on Left at the Gate: More Notes - Feb 6Alan Mannhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12570505944559196118noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8711985.post-1170858562247625552007-02-07T09:29:00.000-05:002007-02-07T09:29:00.000-05:00Regarding Excelsior, Stein and Selig are close fre...Regarding Excelsior, Stein and Selig are close freinds so anything is possible.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8711985.post-1170858294057506642007-02-07T09:24:00.000-05:002007-02-07T09:24:00.000-05:00Regarding the ambulance situation, NYRA is bleedin...Regarding the ambulance situation, NYRA is bleeding money at this point, if the jocks want to contract with a private ambulance firm to take them wherever they want to go, by all means they should go ahead and do so, but to expect NYRA to pay for it is wrong.<BR/><BR/>Guess the real issue is their insistance on independent contractor status while insisting on all the benefits of being an employee. <BR/><BR/>Presumably one of the factors in deciding where to ride is the treatment they would recieve in case of an accident. If they are not happy at Jamaica, have their own ambulance on call or ride elsewhere. Nothing is forcing any of them to ride at Aqueduct.<BR/><BR/>I know it sounds insensitive, but there are a lot of folks that are working very hard in sub freezing temps and depend on the money provided by winter racing. The jocks are insensitive to those individuals needs every time they shut down the racetrack for something other than unsafe racing conditions.<BR/><BR/>Every race cancelled is money out of these peoples pockets.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8711985.post-1170805561030346442007-02-06T18:46:00.000-05:002007-02-06T18:46:00.000-05:00I was at the Empire Racing's "Town Hall Meeting." ...I was at the Empire Racing's "Town Hall Meeting." I am not surprised that Empire never addressed some questions - or listed them on their wesite recap (listed under "7. Anything else you’d like to add?" by some groups turned in with their notes...) One ingored question was, "What is the difference between your stance of 'for profit' and the others that are 'non-profit' ? And several comments were written about Empire's relationship with Bruno...Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com