Kentucky's ongoing attempt to end racing in state proceeds..

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Originally Posted by cmorioles

I'd rather read War and Peace. I scanned through it and couldn't find it.

We all know these studies will usually find exactly what the people funding the study want it to find.

Well, no. Not at all. Properly done and peer-reviewed published studies are extremely valuable, as they stand up to scrutiny and questioning and dissection from "all sides".

I prefer to use common sense. Horses raced for decades with this undetected microscopic bleeding.

That's right.

They seemed to be just fine,

How can you speak to that in the least? It's a guess. I've watched horses race since the 1960's, too. How do you know they couldn't run a length faster? Or come back to their next race two weeks sooner?

Common sense - and physiology - tells me, as a veterinarian, that a horse with blood in it's alveoli can't oxygenate as well as one without microscopic blood in it's alveoli.

and were a lot sturdier lot than what we have now.

That's an assumption stated as fact.

I certainly don't think Lasix is the only problem, but shouldn't it have at least helped a little bit with horses being able to run more often?

It DOES help. ALOT. Measurably and repeatedly. There is plenty of proof over the past 40 years.

Like I've said, as a bettor I don't really care if it is banned. I just have to laugh when those that say it isn't a performance enhancer dismiss that as ridiculous.

We'll, we're just going by the science.