Racist name gets trainer banned.

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  • Bluehorseshoe
    SBR Posting Legend
    • 07-13-06
    • 14998

    #1
    Racist name gets trainer banned.
    Horse trainer Eric Guillot gave one of his horses a racist name to antagonize a Black announcer. The horse won its debut under the name Grape Soda, kicking off a firestorm that appears to have ended Guillot’s career. It was sold after the race for $25,000 and renamed to Respect for All.

    Despite his insistence that “I didn’t do anything wrong,” Guillot also tweeted Saturday morning that he had retired.

    The New York Racing Association announced Saturday that Guillot was banned from its tracks and races. Several horse racing conglomerates and a TV broadcaster also said they were banning Guillot, according to the Paulick Report.

    “This colt will run next week and has unique name in honor of a TVG analyst,” Guillot tweeted on Jan. 1 with a Black fist emoji. “GRAPE SODA,” he responded when asked.

    The analyst, Ken Rudulph, said that the incident was emblematic of bone-deep racism in horse racing.

    “The winner in race #1 from Aqueduct is the perfect example of my issue with horse racing. The winning trainer is a disgusting and racist man,” Rudulph tweeted on Friday afternoon. (Guillot’s timeline is full of racist and outlandish posts.) “But, if you want to make money in this game you have to be able to ignore that stuff. I can’t do it. But y’all carry on with your $11.”

    After Guillot’s punishment was announced Saturday, Rudulph said that he was simply the tip of the iceberg. “I am not a victim so you can miss me with that performative sympathy bulls--t that you all are sending me,” he wrote. “What happened Saturday in New York is not about a horse with a name. It’s about a culture that has been cultivated and covered up in this industry since day number one.”

    Guiloot pumped out a series of classic racist excuses in an interview with the Paulick Report. “I did nothing wrong but be a common comedian, and my skin’s a little too light to be joking about grape sodas, that’s all,” he said. “If Chris Rock or David Chappelle had said it, it would be OK.”

    Guillot tried to claim that he was “just teasing” and “it wasn’t meant in a harmful way” before making clear that he absolutely wanted to harm Rudulph. “He plays the 180-degree Black Lives Matter racist card and is as condescending as you get,” he said. “It has nothing to do with me being racist. This is what he wanted; I just fueled the fire is what I did.”

    Lawrence Roman, who bought the horse Friday, told the New York Times that he changed the name because The Jockey Club asked him to.

    Guillot was an accomplished trainer; his horses won over $13 million in his career, according to the Times.


    Horse trainer Eric Guillot gave one of his horses a racist name to antagonize a Black announcer. The horse won its debut at Aqueduct Racetrack in Queens under the name Grape Soda, kicking off a fir…
  • lonegambler23
    SBR Hall of Famer
    • 06-22-16
    • 9760

    #2
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    • gauchojake
      BARRELED IN @ SBR!
      • 09-17-10
      • 34113

      #3
      I like grape soda.
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      • jjgold
        SBR Aristocracy
        • 07-20-05
        • 388179

        #4
        I love heroes like that
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        • Kermit
          BARRELED IN @ SBR!
          • 09-27-10
          • 32555

          #5
          Should have named it Purple Stuff.
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          • Mike Huntertz
            SBR Posting Legend
            • 08-19-09
            • 11207

            #6
            WTF? What about watermelon, chittlins, collard greens, cotton, etc. etc.
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            • sweethook
              SBR Posting Legend
              • 11-21-07
              • 12667

              #7
              why did they change washington to washington blackskins ? will all teams now be called blackskins ?
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              • JIBBBY
                SBR Aristocracy
                • 12-10-09
                • 83686

                #8
                Gotta walk on egg shells these days or you will get banned and get called a racist. Big Tech Cancel culture very powerful now. Freedom of speech is done in America..

                Look at Trump whom is our standing President in office today who got banned on all social media platforms yesterday.
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                • Shutup
                  SBR MVP
                  • 12-15-17
                  • 2435

                  #9
                  Nothing racist about grape soda

                  Besides it is grape drank
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                  • nyplayer33
                    Restricted User
                    • 09-27-06
                    • 8303

                    #10
                    Only a few more yrs to go for me...sooner is better. Who cares...
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                    • mtneer1212
                      SBR MVP
                      • 06-22-08
                      • 4993

                      #11
                      Ken Rudolph is actually a good handicapper, and a good dude. Here is a video of him hitting a big longshot in the Kentucky Derby

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                      • nyplayer33
                        Restricted User
                        • 09-27-06
                        • 8303

                        #12
                        Turn out the lights the partys over....this society sucks da balls.
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                        • chico2663
                          BARRELED IN @ SBR!
                          • 09-02-10
                          • 36915

                          #13
                          If I owned a horse it would be called Chico’s welfare check.
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                          • littlekona
                            SBR Hall of Famer
                            • 11-19-15
                            • 5242

                            #14
                            Rudulph is by far the worst on TVG. He just takes stabs at price plays with no handicapping skill and his on air banter is so unwatchable that I just mute him and TVG most of the time. Matt is the best handicapper there easy
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                            • hawkwind
                              SBR MVP
                              • 04-25-11
                              • 4062

                              #15
                              I think Sarge beats Matt hands down. jmho
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