A larger racket emerged gradually. Breeders. Trainers. Middlemen. Buyers. All connected by money and silence. Sam traced the structure carefully, realizing this wasn’t about a few bad decisions. It was a system built to profit from pushing living bodies too far.
Apart from the medical non-supervision, Sam also found proof of the use of illegal drugs. This was no oversight. They were weighing performance above welfare. Profit first, consequences later. It was an operating model, refined and protected until someone forced it into the light.