Trainer Eric Guillot banned for giving horse a racist name

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Trainer Eric Guillot banned for giving horse a racist name

Liz Roscher
Sun, January 10, 2021, 9:52 AM CST·4 min read




Horse trainer Eric Guillot has been banned by the New York Racing Association and 1/ST Racing for changing the name of one of his horses to a racial slur, which was directed at a Black TVG analyst.

Guillot, who has made $13 million over his career from horses he trained, tweeted on Jan. 1 that the three-year-old colt he was running at Aqueduct Racetrack was being given a new name “in honor of a TVG analyst,” and followed that with a Black fist emoji. He revealed in a follow-up tweet that the name of the horse was “Grape Soda,” which can be a racist term directed at Black people.

Widespread outcry to Guillot’s name change
According to the Paulick Report, Guillot later admitted that the tweet was “in honor of” Ken Rudolph, a Black analyst for the horse racing network TVG. When the horse came in No. 1 at Aqueduct on Friday, Rudulph tweeted a response to not just the name Guillot chose for the horse, but to the racism he sees all over the racing industry.
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Times a changing, soon having a avatar of a cow will be considered political as it is a biblical animal and against green new deal idealistic overtures ...store will pull grape soda off shelf’s, social media will ban anyone disagrees

 

Meiguo guizi

 

I had no idea this was a racist term.

 

Saying Grape Soda isn't racist. When the person who named the horse that said it was directed at the black announcer of a network and posted the black-power icon, it is racist.

 

I guess this thread was another fail...

 

OP clearly hates black people...just the other day he said that lady who tackled that black teen because she was accusing him of stealing her phone when he didn’t was arrested because of social justice and the NAACP

seek help u POS

 

I read some time ago that the phrase "peanut gallery" is considered risque. Serisously, look it up...........

 

Is Kung Flu racist to Chinese?

 

Gotcha - thanks Dr Pepper

 

Should have named it Fanta

 

Unfortunately, some of my people are wannabe white-adjacents and zealously defend white privilege and white-adjacent privilege.

 

No problem, though I prefer RC Cola.

 

Same company.

 

its not

 

grape soda by itself isn't racist. it's one of those things like watermelon that can be used with intent that changes that.

regardless, there shouldn't be much question that this trainer knew exactly what he was doing:

 

Purple Drank was already taken.

 

What the f*ck is juice ... I want the purple stuff!

 

nevermind