Prominent horse owners vow to run 2-year-olds without race-day drugs

[Danzig]

Originally Posted by cmorioles

So drug them all, then, right? I just have a problem with that I guess. If other places didn't do just fine racing without drugs, maybe I would feel differently.

i don't know. i know i asked you before about harm from lasix. is there? i think you'd said no before.
as for others-yeah, they ship them to where they can use lasix when they bleed, so they know it helps bleeders. wonder where we'll ship ours? or if there is a horse with an issue, it's better to not treat? just seems that we can never find a happy medium with things like this.

[cmorioles]

Originally Posted by Danzig

i don't know. i know i asked you before about harm from lasix. is there? i think you'd said no before.
as for others-yeah, they ship them to where they can use lasix when they bleed, so they know it helps bleeders. wonder where we'll ship ours? or if there is a horse with an issue, it's better to not treat? just seems that we can never find a happy medium with things like this.

I don't know if it harms them. I do know horses are running less and less and lasting fewer seasons since it was introduced.

Yes, they ship bleeders here, but those are the chronic type, not that kind that have to be scoped to find microscopic traces of blood. Hell, after I jog a few miles, I'd probably qualify for the stuff these days.