LM and Preachin' in the Classic

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Originally Posted by Rupert Pupkin

I don't care what the Racing Form says. They simply have a different way of denoting it in New York. We've had this conversation on this board several times. The rules are the same in New york and California. I've been in the business for over 20 years. I've run horses in both California and New York. We ran a horse in New York within the last year and he got bute the day before the race just like all our horses here in California.

If you don't believe me, call the racing office at Del Mar and call the racing office at Saratoga. They will tell you at both tracks that bute is permissable if given the day before the race.

California

http://www.toconline.com/ownership/race-day.php

The only other kind of medication permitted in a horse´s bloodstream on race day is a small quantity of one of four "legal" anti-inflammatories - usually phenylbutazone, or "bute" - which will be indicated in The Racing Form with a capital "B" in the horse´s running lines (though all the anti-inflammatories are indicated with a "B"). Some trainers, in addition, will have the horse stand in a foreleg ice-bath for up to 90 minutes to relieve any nagging discomfort that might distract it from running its best race.

New York

http://www.racing.state.ny.us/horsedrugs.pdf

Either one, but no more than one, of the following two
non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drugs may be
administered by intravenous injection until 24 hours
before the scheduled post time of the race in which the
horse is scheduled to compete: flunixin, or
phenylbutazone.


New York is allowed up until 24 hours before, California is allowed in the horses system on race day.