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Originally Posted by parsixfarms
Maybe the question should be posed a different way: if you were to take the steroids away, would performance decline?
If the answer is "no," then a lot of trainers who have stated that they use steroids because they would be at a competitive disadvantage if they don't use them (Tagg and Amoss said so publicly the week of the Belmont) are sadly mistaken.
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If I had vitamins that helped my horses recover from a race faster than people without those same vitamins would I not have an advantage? If i has special hay that kept weight on nervous fillies and others did not have it, would i not have an advantage? Would performance decline in an individual horse? Possibly. If we took away gastrogard from certain horses I know for a fact that their performances will decline. People dont understand the issue of anabolic steroids and their effects in horses versus humans. If you feel the need to be outraged or mad than turn your anger on the racing commissions which never put in effect regulations concerning them. But now they are overcompensating and casting stones at horseman like we are the bad guys. It is not a black and white, good guys versus bad guys issue yet it will most definitely be portrayed that way during this Federal hearing especially in light of the 'witness' list.