Quote from NiekH on July 9, 2026, 2:37 PM

To whoever wrote this, we invented punctuation and paragraphs for a reason...

But it's a lot of ifs and rumours. If Virgil called to get the Nobles out of southern Ohio, then that would be egregious. I believe Virgil got caught on some positives, I'll exclude the meth ones since those are most likely from caretakers. But if he got caught on anything else, he needs to be punished accordingly.

Same case for the alleged girlfriend beating. If that is true, he needs to be in jail. Plain simple.

I will agree that the way the Nobles shattered track records back to back, did look suspicious as hell. And most of those horses haven't seem to repeat those kind of efforts. 

I doubt the Nobles are out "millions", he'll have a lower purse earnings this year. But he had a all-time high last year. Always hard to repeat that. He looks to be on par for a 9 million season if he races as much as last year. That would be his 3rd best season ever...

Quote from Lonnie on July 9, 2026, 6:20 PM

Quote from NiekH on July 9, 2026, 2:37 PM

To whoever wrote this, we invented punctuation and paragraphs for a reason...

But it's a lot of ifs and rumours. If Virgil called to get the Nobles out of southern Ohio, then that would be egregious. I believe Virgil got caught on some positives, I'll exclude the meth ones since those are most likely from caretakers. But if he got caught on anything else, he needs to be punished accordingly.

Same case for the alleged girlfriend beating. If that is true, he needs to be in jail. Plain simple.

I will agree that the way the Nobles shattered track records back to back, did look suspicious as hell. And most of those horses haven't seem to repeat those kind of efforts. 

I doubt the Nobles are out "millions", he'll have a lower purse earnings this year. But he had a all-time high last year. Always hard to repeat that. He looks to be on par for a 9 million season if he races as much as last year. That would be his 3rd best season ever...

Shockingly, from looking at the standings, Noble is still half a million dollars behind Aaron Merriman, who has been sidelined for months now.

Quote from Bgtolex25 on July 10, 2026, 5:45 AM

Beyond belief that we are 9 months out from the Noble ban in Southern Ohio and no updates.   Meanwhile, Morgan Jr. has a stay on a 12 month suspension for two Class 1 pops.  We have no idea what is going on, but the optics (and reality?) are brutal for an industry on life support.