Some cures for standardbred-racing's ills

From: Chicago Sun-Times | Date: January 18, 1998| Author: Larry Hamel | Copyright information

My commentary last week on issues harness-racing fans really care about seems to have exposed a raw nerve.

Judging from the phone calls, letters and e-mail that have crossed my desk, a whole lot of fans are fed up with the quality of competition in Illinois standardbred racing. They echoed, for example, my consternation about the number of truly awful, unhandicappable horses that pollute fields on the Chicago circuit and concurred with my conclusion that a system that perpetuates me...

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