BC to phase out raceday meds; No Lasix for '12 Juvenile events
 

As part of its efforts to bring the Breeders’ Cup World Championships in line with other major global racing events, Breeders’ Cup Limited moved today to develop protocols to eliminate race-day medications in its Championships over the next two years, Breeders’ Cup announced today.

The measure, adopted at today’s Board of Directors meeting, would be directed at prohibiting the race day administration of any medication to horses competing in the Breeders’ Cup World Championships. It was strongly supported by the Breeders’ Cup Members during their annual meeting on July 13. As an initial step, the Breeders’ Cup board directed that procedures be developed that would result in the prohibition of the administration of race day medication in two year-old races in the 2012 Championships. The next step would be the implementation of a new policy for all Championship races in the 2013 event and subsequent events.

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Breeders' Cup to ban raceday medication in juvenile races
By Matt Hegarty

All horses who are entered in the five Breeders' Cup races for juveniles in 2012 will be prohibited from using the diuretic Lasix on race day to treat bleeding in the lungs under a policy adopted by the Breeders' Cup on Thursday that will lead to the ban of all raceday drugs at the organization's year-end event by 2013, the organization said.

The partial ban in 2012 is the strongest measure to be taken by any organization in North American racing since efforts began earlier this year to roll back the use of raceday drugs in U.S. racing. The rollback has been strongly supported by the Breeders' Cup and other influential industry organizations, including the Jockey Club and the Association of Racing Commissioners International, but horsemen in the United States have resisted.

In a release, the Breeders' Cup said the ban on raceday drugs in 2012 for the juvenile races was the first step in "the implementation of a new policy for all [Breeders' Cup] races in the 2013 event and subsequent events." The Breeders' Cup currently consists of 15 races run over two days with purses totaling $26 million.

Rumor has it they're going to burn the American flag in the winners circle.

Wait until the next big thing skips the BC because he/she is a known bleeder.

Better yet, watch the faces of the chalk eaters when the favorite pulls up at the top of the stretch.

why are they banning race day lasix?

Because they want to be European. They tend to despise their neighbors and feel they are superior to everyone around them. They attach themselves to people and places that are far away so they can one up the neighbors they despise.

Basically your dealing with morons. Morons with money and extreme emotional problems.

yeah, an absolute bullshit rule

Absolutely makes it unbettable in 2013. Guess I'll have to go this year and next year and be done with horse racing after that

As long as they don't make me give up my raceday meds.

Forget about say, the Del Cap being unbettable, Scav is saying 15 races almost 2.5 years from now are unbettable. Brilliant!

Amazing, another moronic knee jerk reaction much like synthetic racetracks. But I am sure Dr. Loonybin will come on here and tell us why I am wrong. This should do wonders for the raceday horse population. :wf

Or hopefully this will be the end of the Breeder's Cup and NYRA will reinstate the fall Championship series for those that want to run on real dirt with Lasix.

Yeah, those Arabs and Euros do everything better than we do in America. :rolleyes:

Now that was a non-sequitur.

So you are going to want to risk your hard earned money on a race where out of the say 14 starters, 10 of them are going to be Lasix Off and then you have to predict who is gonna handle that. No thank you.

That is why its unbettable to me now.

I was gonna mention this yesterday, they should just take over this thing, let the BC fart around with some BS horse from South Africa and India and do it the right way.

Who says they are going to be "Lasix off" in the BC only? If you know the BC races are Lasix off, maybe horses will be prepared without Lasix in advance of that knowledge...

Overall, I just think it was premature to say it will automatically be bad betting.

It's going to be an advantage to trainers that can get away with stuff that others cannot.

Same as it ever was.

Here is what I know. Out of the 6 race horses that we have in racing, 4 of them couldn't compete at the lowest levels of racing, say Beulah Park, if it wasn't for Lasix.

Meanwhile, because of Lasix, we compete at levels the horse is capable of because we prevent him from being in pain, while 1000% sound.

Lasix is the least of our problems, and enables thousands of horses to participate in American-style dirt speed racing. What a silly thing to go after.