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Maybe they could have run a length faster.
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Or the measured difference that a study quoted earlier here found.
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Is that worth drugging every horse so now they all run a length faster?
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If you take an aspirin for a sore knee, are you a "drugged performance enhancer"? And nobody has ever said lasix should be given to every horse.
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Sturdier is an assumption based on rapidly declining starts per year, which happens to coincide with the use of Lasix.
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That also coincides 100% with the advancement of the Mayan calendar.
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As for your science, there have been studies done that show it does enhance performance among non-bleeders. You posted it yourself if I'm not mistaken.
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That's right, I posted three studies about performance. What did they say again?
The thread has now come full circle. Some that are sure lasix is a performance enhancer ruining the sport will not be dissuaded by any evidence to the contrary.
Kasept and Cannon wrote some very insightful posts in the first few pages. Worth a re-read.