I don't know Larry Jones at all -- but I think people here are skating on the very same thin ice as the uneducated media. First, if this was a clentbuterol positive, let's wait for the facts. Trace level, drastic, whatever. Second, this is a perfectly legal drug -- PERIOD. Whether you like it or not -- LEGAL. Used everyday all over the backstretch. He used it to close maybe, and he'll pay the price. For those who know jump up and say "See, I told you so, here's the proof" -- no, you didn't tell anything other than show you are being moronic.
Third, the only people who would tie everything that ever appeared skeptical or cynical from Jones to this minor infraction, are showing their complete lack of knowledge about this game. I know -- everybody "just knows" -- yeah, been there, done that.
As far as the form reversals, drastic change in #'s, etc. -- this has nothing to do with a clenbuterol positive. Please. You want to say that where there is smoke there is fire -- great go ahead. There are plenty of trainers who have gradual increases in results, and others who have drastic ones. There are plenty of answers, some valid, some not. Drugs? Sure, in some cases -- those who know can look at the stats and certain trainers who went from low teens to high 20's. OK. But others -- there are valid, perfectly acceptable reasons . . . but not to those who need to lay blame, find guilt, and have to find the smoking gun. Did anyone think Jones wasn't using clenbuterol? What % of trainers aren't?
God forbid a popular trainer here, well liked, etc. had a clenbuterol positive. I am sure the story would be much different.
Eric
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