NY Task Force on Racehorse Health & Safety Report, Reccos

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Originally Posted by cmorioles

Paceadvantage platform? You do know I'm just a poster there only, right? I can moderate posts when people get out of line, nothing more. I have nothing else to do with that site other than it is the one where I post most.

As for the drug thing, did you notice nobody here posted the Bloodhorse article about 2yo horses racing without Lasix? I'm quite sure you didn't miss it. Turns out a very small percentage of those horses showed the slightest trace of bleeding. Yet, we are told it is needed in the vast majority of horses as a preventive drug.

Many trainers (and I have no idea if that includes you) do what the vet tells them to do, nothing more. They just echo what they are told as if experts in equine medicine. Believe it or not, there are plenty of unscrupulous vets out there that use trainers and do unnecessary things. My opinion is there are way too many tracks running too many days, and because of that we have plenty of unqualified people training horses.

There is a lot of ugly stuff that goes on with horses, and that was all my original post was meant to say. I mean how can you possibly defend giving horses clenbuterol every day without even knowing if it would have benefits or not? That is just sad. We can all bitch and moan about the articles in the New York Times and in the NYRA report, but the fact is there is plenty of dirty laundry to be aired, even if all that was written isn't completely true or exaggerated.

Since you made it personal, lets make a deal. I'll stop complaining about drug use when you stop whining about other trainers getting too many horses, i.e. they should give them to you instead.

You made it personal dude. For some reason people like you think that trainers can just be insulted without recourse because we are all drug addled, cheats or idiots depending on what our win % is. I would think that I have established the credentials to speak on topics concerning thorghbred racehorses, matters of their health, proper and ethical treatment of racehorses and matters pertaining to the racing office without being disregarded as a biased moron. Not to mention a willingness to speak frankly about topics that many in the game want to ignore.

You want to bring up the 2 yo lasix topic as though we are doing some sort of study here and are ignoring pertinent information. Only someone who is frighteningly naive would think that the people who are promoting the elimination of lasix would be coming up with any other conclusion than they arent seeing much bleeding. But of course young, well bred 2 year olds are of course the least likely horses to bleed but hey you have a handful of non bleeders so of course you are entirely correct about everything you say about lasix.

Many trainers do what the vet tells them to do? Or is it the trainers tell the vets what to do? Of course you learn these things by reading them in reports and other massaged sources of information and us people who are actually doing the job everyday have practical experience and forgive me for laughing when you want to lecture me on vet/trainer practices.

Your opinion on way too many tracks running too many days leading to too many unqualified people is interesting but since the thread was originally about breakdowns at NYRA which is more or less the top circuit in the country I guess your solution wouldnt have had much impact right? Because I'm doubt there are a bunch of guys at River Downs that chose to go there instead of Saratoga and hey lets just get rid of them and drugs and everything will be great again? Yeah sure.

There is a lot of ugly stuff that goes on with a lot of things. The idea that more is being done now than in the past is nonsense. The fact is that there is less bs happening now than there was years ago but because of advances in information availability the perception is that the sky is falling. You know as well as I do that 20 years ago the frog juice positives get no play in most of the thoroughbred world. There was a similar scandal in the 80's with elephant juice (etorphine) and yet I bet virtually no one even remembers that. They ran ringers at NYRA in the 70's. The top jockeys in NY were implicated on the cover of Sport Illustrated for fixing races and Vasquez was suspended a year. There was a guy named Preston King, check him out. Oscar Barrera. Gaspar. This is just in NY. What about the insurance scandals? What about Dr Harthill?

How can I defend giving clenbuterol? Seriously? You have zero knowledge of the medication or even racehorses in general but you are going to question me? How can i defend it? Easy, there is nothing wrong with giving horses clenbuterol. The funny thing is children with asthma are given clenbuterol, it is hardly a horse specific drug. I guess all those doctors are reprehensible as well?

Yeah and my opinion that the concentration of all the good horses in NY with a select few trainers is me actually secretly lobbying for those horses. It couldnt be common sense or an understanding of a history of the game or anything like that. Just jealousy. Because you know trainers can never voice an opinion on anything concerning horseracing because we are biased or jealous.