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Originally Posted by GPK
“It’s hard to justify how many horses we go through,” said Dr. Rick Arthur, the equine medical director for the California Racing Board. “In humans you never see someone snap their leg off running in the Olympics. But you see it in horse racing.”
Mind boggling that someone with Dr. in front of their name could make such an asinine and poorly thought out statement.
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I'm hardly a fan of Dr Arthur who is a self serving blowhard for the most part but there is a pretty big chance that this was taken out of context. This is a 3 part propaganda piece, no more or less. Anything that can be used to further the agenda of those people IN RACING that are behind this will be used regardless of the accuracy of the information given.
Let me predict now that part 1 is the shock value set up, part 2 will offer a whole bunch of the same old crap focusing more on thoroughbreds and part 3 will be the "sponsors" of this propoganda threatening more unless "something is done to cure the drug culture". The 3 writers are simply pawns being used by the elitest crowd to do their bidding. All this to get rid of the smaller tracks and lasix.