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Originally Posted by Danzig

i don't think drf should be the one getting fingers pointed at it--the trainers who are currently adding to the woes of racing should be! if racing doesn't want a black eye, then they need to take steps to let people like asmussen and dutrow know that they aren't wanted; that their actions won't be tolerated.

and kentucky racing needs to give dutrow a stronger sentence. he is NOT a first time offender. since there is no nat'l body, each jurisdiction needs to change its rules--don't use reciprocity just to bench a trainer who is suspended elsewhere-offenses need to add up, regardless of where they occur. if clenbuterol is a class two drug, then he should be charged with having his 4th, or 7th, or whatever # of class two violation it is for him--not just his first if it's his first with clenbuterol.

Agreed -- excellent point, but the trainers, AND owners, vets, etc. and so on. Right down the line.

The other thing is, and I try to remember this and put myself in someone else's shoes -- when we watch horse racing on a major network, ESPN, or read about it in the NY Times, etc., we have to remember that broadcase, that article . . . is not being put out there for "us" so to speak. Different marketplace, different consumer, much broader market (more, closer to, entry level) with a hopefully larger and wider mass appeal.

Eric