IEAH attempts to take the high road...

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Originally Posted by parsixfarms

Agreed. This is why the focus needs to be enhanced testing and, perhaps more importantly, stiffer penalties when they are caught (so perhaps the guys using these currently undetectable drugs will think twice if getting caught means an end to his or her career). When you think of it in this context, the penalty given to Biancone last year was really a slap on the wrist.

I think that testing will always have big holes in it. Funding, the huge volume of horses, thousands of possible drugs, lack of research,etc. What could be done is real live investigators that keep the backside under real surveillence. Random searches, tests done on items found in vets trucks, etc. If you find something solid like they did with Biancone, throw the book at them. Hire real investagators and hire enough of them. Hell, plant listening devices on the backside if you want. But testing will never be efficent enough to really do the job.