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Old 10-19-2006, 10:05 AM
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Originally Posted by oracle80
BTW,
Ask your friend the trainer about his absolute bull**** positive for a salve that was used to treat cracked feet.
They aren't machines and they get ailments that must be treated and the wear off times can be tricky and vary from horse to horse.
Zero tolerance on performance enhancing stuff, yeah, count me in. But you simply can't condemn trainers who treat cracked feet or lung infections or cuts the same way that you treat a guy who jams a tube into a horses mouth or injects them with a hopper on race day.
Surely you must understand the difference here.
I have to agree with you on this. Some trainers use drugs deliberately and intentionally to enhance a horses performance in a race if there is little chance of them getting caught. However, most of the time, that isn't the case. The veterinarians make a lot of mistakes too with these medications like not giving the horse the proper dosage, or giving them the medication later than they were supposed to which can cause the horse to have a positive drug test.

Oh yeah, and I agree with your other posts too on this thread.

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