25 trainers urge Lasix-ban; THA says issue debated, decided

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Originally Posted by Danzig

dutrow got a ten year ban as a warning to other trainers. that's how the powers that be do things, they use someone as an example, in hopes it scares the others into doing the right thing-or less of the wrong thing.

I don't believe that he was given a 10 year ban as a warning regardless of how they framed it. I believe they supported this extreme ban because they wanted to justify their own existence and remain in their jobs by answering the number 1 criticism of regulators, that they were too easy on repeat offenders.

Dutrow gave them plenty of ammunition to use against him.
Rick is a likable guy. People think that the "juice" trainers are all sinister douchbags when a lot of the supposed good guys are just that. However that confuses personality with wrongdoing.

What escapes most people is that many of the juice guy owners seem to do just fine when they move onto making the next juice guy. Now they have even smartened up and are changing the stable names every time the heat comes.