As I have been preaching for years now the seemingly complete randomness to the allowable limits is an absolute joke. About 10 years ago when this medication stuff started being debated I was stunned to find out how little most people knew about the issue and i'm talking about industry people who should know. When the RMTC was originally developed I thought it was a great chance to "fix" things. Of course they bowed to the political pressure for the most part by doing things backwards by starting with the penalty phase first as opposed to when it should have been dealt with, last. So much of the rhetoric is just completely misguided which I believe is where parsix is going and I have to agree.
Demonizing legal medications is stupid, ignorant and shows a complete lack of understanding of the physical realities of racehorses. The Jockey Club types have absolutely polluted the waters with their willing co conspirators in the media. Sadly the lesson learned here will mostly likely soon be forgotten because for the most part they believe they are "different" and everything that happens to them is a "unique situation". Those two words in quotes are words that I heard used in reaction to this case by a blue blood type recently.
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