Current Events > NYRA BANS horse trainer for giving race horse a BLATANT Racist racing name

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He said it was in honor of a TVG analyst followed by a black fist emoji on Twitter. The horses name was Grape Soda. A piece of shit racist like this deserves to be banned and everyone should know who he is.

https://www.yahoo.com/sports/trainer-banned-for-giving-horse-a-racist-name-behavior-on-social-media-155226653.html

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 Guillots 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.
In response to the revelations about the horses name, numerous racing organizations banned Guillot. David ORourke of the the New York Racing association released this statement.
Racism is completely unacceptable in all forms. NYRA rejects Eric Guillot's toxic words and divisive behavior in the strongest terms. At this time, he will no longer be permitted to enter horses at any NYRA track nor will he be allocated stalls on NYRA grounds. In addition, we will review what further steps may be available to us. Our racing community is diverse, and we stand for inclusion.
1/ST Racing, which owns several race tracks, also released a statement condemning Guillot and banning him from racing or training at their facilities.
"1/ST Racing stands firmly against the inexcusable actions of trainer Eric Guillot. There is no place in the sport of Thoroughbred racing for racism in any form. Our company will not tolerate the use of hateful and divisive language or behavior.
"1/ST Racing agrees fully with the New York Racing Association's move to ban Mr. Guillot from racing and will take the same action. Mr. Guillot is no longer welcomed at any 1/ST Racing track."

Cypress Creek Equine, which owned the horse when it ran at Aqueduct on Friday, issued a statement to the New York Times indicating that Guillot was no longer employed by them.
Cypress Creek Equine would like to denounce the actions of their former trainer Eric Guillot. Mr. Guillot will no longer train for or represent Cypress Creek Equine due to his action on social media. Cypress Creek apologizes for any ill feelings and does not condone this type of behavior.
TVG also took action against Guillot on behalf of Rudulph, saying in a statement that they would no longer air any races Guillot is involved in.

Owner changes horses name

Lawrence Roman, who now owns the horse, told BloodHorse that he didnt know about the controversy when he made the claim for the horse. When he found out, he decided to rename the horse Respect For All, and vowed to donate 10 percent of its earnings to the Backstretch Employee Service Team at the New York Racing Association.
"When I heard about the controversy, which I knew nothing of at the time of the claim, you have to make something good out of a bad situation and this is a bad situation. Nobody should ever name a horse in a manner that's disrespectful of anyone. You have to do the right thing. I love the sport and we don't need more controversy with this kind of stuff. We all want to win. That's good controversy, but stuff like this, we don't need this. It's terrible. Hopefully people will now root for the horse and we'll do something good for people through the earnings."

Racist piece of shit Eric Guillot:


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grape soda is a black slur?

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I believe one of the moderator's has experience delivering baby horses. I'm curious what they think about this situation? @Error1355

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viewmaster_pi posted...

grape soda is a black slur?

Are we really going to pretend here? It is a blatant stereotype that he used to honor a black man

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Yeah, calling BS on it being racist. Grape Soda is racist, Corn Pop is racist. Next thing you know, something beautiful and calming like Green Meadow will be considered racist. Outrage culture is making people go full you know what.

Are you guys kidding? Do you not know that stereotype?

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This never wouldve happened in the...

oh shit

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DepreceV2 posted...

Are you guys kidding? Do you not know that stereotype?

this

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viewmaster_pi posted...

grape soda is a black slur?

whats with this board and always trying to be obtuse.

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i mean i love grape soda

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I suddenly want grape soda

Grape soda is like the fried chicken thing, it's been linked to black people as a stereotype (usually negative), and that's not even a secret. The only way this isn't racist is if the dead man was known for something related to grape soda (like Kel and orange soda).

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If you equate blacks with grape soda, maybe you're the racist

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Here's his most recent tweet:

https://twitter.com/EricGuillot14/status/1348462898323058699

Also scrolled for a minute and saw some bitter, petty crap as well as a literal wake up sheeple tweet

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Quorthon109 posted...

Here's his most recent tweet:

https://twitter.com/EricGuillot14/status/1348462898323058699

Also scrolled for a minute and saw some bitter, petty crap as well as a literal wake up sheeple tweet

Yet people want to sit here and pretend what he did wasnt racist. Insane


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DepreceV2 posted...

Yet people want to sit here and pretend what he did wasnt racist. Insane

calm down, jesus

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Are the CEers in this topic just pretending to be ignorant of the real world or what

Cuz I legit don't know, since 95% of people here never know even the most basic of slang terms

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The MAGA board closing really brought a few new shit users huh


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this is the part where enlightened CE says i'm racist because i thought soda flavors were just soda flavors. i get that in context what the dude did is racist, especially fucked up to do in "honor" of a dead man, but i have literally never heard grape soda being used to attack black people besides this story

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Not a slur but definitely a stereotype. Pretty understandable. Did you people not see Harold and Kumar two? Pretty funny scene.

TopKEKIeon posted...

Yeah, calling BS on it being racist. Grape Soda is racist, Corn Pop is racist. Next thing you know, something beautiful and calming like Green Meadow will be considered racist. Outrage culture is making people go full you know what.

Ok why would use the black power fist and that name aimed at black person?

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viewmaster_pi posted...

this is the part where enlightened CE says i'm racist because i thought soda flavors were just soda flavors. i get that in context what the dude did is racist, especially fucked up to do in "honor" of a dead man, but i have literally never heard grape soda being used to attack black people besides this story

never watched Harold and Kumar?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=efHSnaga4uE

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AlisLandale posted...

never watched Harold and Kumar?

no actually, the stoner humor thing never clicked with me

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viewmaster_pi posted...

this is the part where enlightened CE says i'm racist because i thought soda flavors were just soda flavors. i get that in context what the dude did is racist, especially fucked up to do in "honor" of a dead man, but i have literally never heard grape soda being used to attack black people besides this story

It's been around for a while, long before "woke" culture, but I dont think its necessarily used to attack. It more falls in like with black people liking fried chicken and watermelon stereotype. I don't really think someone is gonna get outraged and say "how dare you say I like grape soda" but more in the context here, this guy basically said in honor of this dead black man, I'm naming my horse grape soda, which seems more like a gut punch than an honoring of someone.

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Not even creative. It's double offensive.

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MabusIncarnate posted...

It's been around for a while, long before "woke" culture, but I dont think its necessarily used to attack. It more falls in like with black people liking fried chicken and watermelon stereotype. I don't really think someone is gonna get outraged and say "how dare you say I like grape soda" but more in the context here, this guy basically said in honor of this dead black man, I'm naming my house grape soda, which seems more like a gut punch than an honoring of someone.

i understand that, i'm not saying he wasn't way out of line for it, especially taking into account what else he tweets about

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viewmaster_pi posted...

i understand that, i'm not saying he wasn't way out of line for it, especially taking into account what else he tweets about

Then why was your first response to my topic this?

viewmaster_pi posted...

grape soda is a black slur?

You didnt even condemn him or anything. You questioned if the term was racist to begin with which is absurd

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DepreceV2 posted...

You didnt even condemn him or anything. You questioned if the term was racist to begin with which is absurd

because alone, grape soda seemed innocuous to me. moreso than the better known stereotypes, at any rate

maybe it's because of how particular and specific it is, it just seems so arbitrary

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viewmaster_pi posted...

because alone, grape soda seemed innocuous to me. moreso than the better known stereotypes, at any rate

I gave you the full context and the full story. I know you read the context because I didnt give the horse name in the title. Get out of here with that bs

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calm down dude

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i like grape stuff in general, it's probably the best flavor where the artificial taste is different than the real thing, didn't know it was the same as the fried chicken stereotype, and the immediate response is "yes you did, you're being obtuse!"

oi

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viewmaster_pi posted...

grape soda is a black slur?

Innately on it's own, no.
And it's technically not a slur.

However, in the context of the trainer literally changing the registered name of the horse to honor a black person, yes, that can easily be seen as racially defamatory by a commonly known stereotype.

It looks like the trainer was either arrogant enough to knowingly give the horse a publicly offensive name or was ignorantly tone-deaf enough to feel the offensiveness would be overlooked as nothing more than " a good laugh". If he gets a huge backlash over it, he set himself up...

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Whatever happened to naming horses something funny or innocent, like Hoof-Hearted, or Elbow Deep.

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race horses are supposed to have inordinately long names like She Came in Through the Bathroom Window or Texas Connecticut, The Pride of Kansas City

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Miss read this as NYRA.

~Turns out it was NYRA.

Ya, I've heard some funky names for horses. But this one's kinda shit. First Dude was lame but kinda harmless. This one right now is kinda nope.

Thoroughbreed owners are either awesome or pieces of horse shit with little in betweeen.
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DepreceV2 posted...

Are we really going to pretend here? It is a blatant stereotype that he used to honor a black man

No pretending. Is that a real thing?

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Lorenzo_2003 posted...

No pretending. Is that a real thing?

Okay so I googled it and I can't find anything definitive, so maybe it's not as commonly known. But yes the grape soda or "purple drank" has long been a stereotype about black American culture. I've even heard it referenced in comedy specials on TV so I know it's not just regional.

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Nobody would have said anything if he didn't tweet it was about the guy from TVG.

That was his mistake. I'm an avid racehorse better, have been for a few years now, and there are countless "controversial" horse names, nobody pays attention to them because you don't see trainers and owners posting on social media about WHY they named them that.

So yeah, Eric Guillot is a dumbfuck.

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i know about purple drank but i thought it was a meme from something

there was actually a real drink called Drank sold for a while that was made with rose hips. it was supposed to help relax you, i liked it

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https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Drank_(soft_drink)

apparently purple drank is another name for lean, didn't know that either...

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And btw Grape Soda? I thought Kool-Aid was the more popular black stereotype drink.

At least that's what Gabriel Iglesias' prank on G Riley taught me lol. Although wait... I think there was also Grape Soda in the basket.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n2HgXRNVT7g

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Lmao

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https://twitter.com/EricGuillot14/status/1347867369746669568?s=20

A tune blown through a half clogged sewer pipe.
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I've never heard of the soda thing either

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i've been treated worse for less, lol. and to be fair, i don't blame anyone to expect people to play dumb about messed up stuff online. i've seen it too

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Is grape soda the drink only in America? I don't think we have it over here?

We do have Irn Bru though, Scots drink it cause they're hard as nails made of titanium.


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Lorenzo_2003 posted...

No pretending. Is that a real thing?

The grape soda thing is a specific food/beverage stereotype to insult black people in the U.S.

Grape soda was/is seen as more of "poor" person beverage. Constantly associating that food, and the fried chicken/watermelon, with black people has always been a more "PC" way of putting them down without outright using the n-word.

I guess it would be easier to illustrate with the grapes themselves. You have this fruit and you make a drink.

Grape soda = black people stereotype
Wine = white people stereotype

It's a racist, classist example of weaponizing food. By itself, none of the foods I have mentioned are racist. But the history and deeper meaning shows the racist connotations.

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Like the other user said, I really didn't know. I know of a couple racist food stereotypes used but never the soda

Idiot horse trainer

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Eliza3 posted...

Okay so I googled it and I can't find anything definitive, so maybe it's not as commonly known. But yes the grape soda or "purple drank" has long been a stereotype about black American culture. I've even heard it referenced in comedy specials on TV so I know it's not just regional.

@Eliza3
Edit: and @Kastrada
Thanks for the info

Ive never heard of it used other than for the actual Fanta soft drink, so wouldve thought it was maybe a sentimental nickname for someone who liked drinking it a lot. It seems like we should just stay away from its use, considering this recent story.

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