TOP TEN REASONS TO SUPPORT THE PAULICK REPORT

by Paulick Report Staff | 11.17.2010 | 12:46am

Yesterday, we made a general appeal as to why we think the Paulick Report is worth supporting financially. We keep checking our backs for a team of PBS lawyers but so far they haven’t seemed to notice our blatant fundraiser knock-off!

As a service to our prospective donors, we thought it would be neighborly of us to point out 10 reasons why writing a check or sending a PayPal donation would be the right move for you. Think of these as talking points when your spouse asks why you just wrote a check to a Web site you don’t own.

10. You never got over seeing Ray on the other side of the soup kitchen counter when you volunteered last Christmas.

9.   Sheikh Mohammed isn’t returning his phone calls.

8.   PBS keyed your car.

7.   Reading online publications reduces waste and makes you feel like an environmentalist.

6.   You just cashed in your Magna Entertainment stock and don’t know what to do with all those profits.

5.   It’s your way of thanking us for publishing all 74 of your trainer’s rulings from the RCI database.

4.   You believe in Ray’s new TV script CDI: Kentucky.

3.   Your local paper doesn’t have a turf writer anymore (and you live in the horse capital of the world!)

2.   Moving Ray into a higher tax bracket gives him that much better a chance to be elected to the Jockey Club.

1.   You believe that an independent, truthful voice supported by anonymous donors and not controlled by advertisers is the best way to bring about meaningful change in the industry.

Whether you have found your reason to support the Paulick Report in this Top Ten or not, if you place value in the independent voice we have crafted over the past few months, we ask you to please consider sending a donation of $2,000, $1,000, $500, $250, $100 or even $50. Any amount is greatly appreciated and rest assured that donor anonymity is guaranteed. Please click the link below to our ‘Support the Paulick Report’ page where you can make a donation either by PayPal or through the mail.

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http://ChristineGeorge.com Bellwether

we support most of Rays Ways…but he has never written one word about Bellwether Productions or really ask…we own & race in MD also…so Alex ntra (Bellwether has done a ton in the THREE YEARS they were asleep @ the wheel!!!) better watch out…Long Live The Dirt!!!
http://pedigreenation.com Les

I am torn between 1,2 & 3.
http://none Roger

One would have to be delusional to pay $50, let alone $2,000, for the privilege of reading about Ray’s pissing contests with Indian Charlie. I’m no fan of the IC rag, but this site is sinking to that sort of low. The links are all nice, but I rarely see anything here that I can’t get for free on Equidaily.com, other than the childish barbs thrown at other sites.
http://www.paulickreport.com Ray Paulick

Roger — Thanks for those cogent remarks.

While I’ll take you at your word that you’ve learned nothing about the Thoroughbred industry at the Paulick Report reading in-depth articles about the Congressional hearings, the inner workings and histories of the Breeders’ Cup, Jockey Club, Keeneland, NYRA, Magna, the NTRA et al….please check back tomorrow when I’m sure you’ll find something you can agree with, as we preview the “Top 10 Reasons NOT to Support the Paulick Report.”
http://www.blackwatchholdings.blogspot.com winston

What? Your Top Ten list doesn’t go to 11?
http://none Roger

Ray,

I had high hopes for this site and am disappointed in the direction it has taken and the repeated attempts to be the news rather than report it, such as this nonsense in acknowledging Indian Charlie.

If you need financial support to keep the site going, why don’t you sell advertising to support it rather than soliciting donations? I would prefer to donate my money to a thoroughbred retirement/retraining fund. Why don’t you make that reason #1 tomorrow?

RH
Gary Humphries

Roger

As a casual observer of this site, I have to say I am quite confused by your objections. It seems to me that Ray has only taken on IC because of his racist tendencies and hardly has made himself the center of the story. And to my knowledge, that story had to be like 1% of the stories Ray has written since the Paulick Report’s inception. Seems like you have an agenda if all you can bring up is IC.
Noelle

In response to Rogerâ€¦

1. I’ve been reading the Paulick Report for a few months and saw little mention of Indian Charlie until the past week or so. What publication doesn’t occasionally include something of little interest to some readers?

2. The news links that are free on Equidaily are free here, too. Readers are being asked to support the site if we choose – not to pay for it. There’s a difference. In any case, Equidaily’s mission is different; its entire content is the links.

3. The Reportâ€™s many in-depth articles about the various industry issues and players have been both informative and educational, providing essential, well-researched news and refreshingly independent commentary that counters the bought-and-paid-for insider bias characteristic of too many racing publications.

Now, if I only had $2000â€¦.
edmund

The story on Keeneland was worth a donation alone. Some might refer to me as an industry insider and I’ve learned tons from the Paulick Report.

Is it perfect? Hardly, but it is worth your support (and mine).

Go, Rayby, Go
Jane

Careful where you throw stones….after writing #3 on that list, I would probably not ask Alicia for donations yet again.
http://none Garrett Redmond

Ray,

‘Tis far better to beg honorably than to sell your soul to big advertisers.

Craving for the big advertisers’ (read : Stallion Managers) dollars is the reason we have a pusillanimous trade press.

Remain independent. Be the Ray of hope for change in our business.
Travis

Pusillanimous!! Garrett, between you and Ray, my Websters Dictionary is getting a workout!
http://Independent Don Reed

Our 2nd contribution has been sent. The 3rd is already in the budget. The PR is doing a great job, and I hope that the heavy hitting donors are on board, as well.

Glad to see the Museum story – which I missed, being up at Saratoga when it was posted.

My wife and I at one point were contemplating getting more involved.

And then we made the mistake of accepting invitations to a Racing Museum social (cocktails and a dinner), @ four-five years ago.

The people assembled – aside from the genuinely warm museum staff at the front door – could not have been more unfriendly, stiff, and socially inept. The food was awful, as was the experience of having to eat in the proximity of these ungracious people. We cut it short and – literally – fled.

Never have been back. No chance it will ever happen.

Regards,

DR