Drug Free Racing

[The Indomitable DrugS]

Originally Posted by Honu

Dont blame the horses and dont blame the trainers , blame the people who have the stallions and mares and breed them and sell them .

Blame them for what?

Do 99% of the horses racing today really need to be running on lasix? Are the people who have the stallions and mares the ones over-medicating horses?

I'm tired of hearing about how wonderful all of these legal performance enhancing drugs are.

Perhaps these stoutly bred stamina horses that you seem to think we need more of, can't win, even going a distance, because legal performancing enhancing medications are helping to carry a fleet footed horse further along. And many of them are being weeded out of the pedigrees in favor of horses who would simply not be as effective at carrying their speed if they raced only on hay, oats, and water.

You think breeders should have to try and breed slowpoke endurance horses who can't win, or are up-against it, in the current enviornment racing is in?

If a horse can't run to his good form without the aid of one of these wonderful legal drugs....let them go to another racing jurisdiction where they tolerate these splendid and wonderful drugs in a horses system on race-day.