Articles like the one where the bozo from NC state compares a horse racing on Bute to Micheal Jordan taking ibuprofen to play in the NBA finals just lack all creditability. First of all, every trainer uses bute, everywhere. It works and it is relatively side effect free. Sure it may not be great for a horses stomach but what anti-inflamatory is? Secondly if this idiot thinks that an NBA player would refuse to take ibuprofen to play he is an idiot. They take freaking cortisone shots in their joints but wouldn't "risk" an injury taking ibuprofen. That is the kind of guy you quote if you are trying to enflame the situation or you are just plain stupid.
Lets end this lunacy about Lasix being this great destroyer of the breed. It is a freaking diuretic and has ZERO effect on the genetic makeup of the offspring of users of it. Stop kidding yourself about culling the breed of weakness or bleeders. As long as a mare has a marginal pedigree there will be someone out there willing to take a shot of breeding her regardless of how cripple she was or how much she bled. I know for a fact that one of the best producers of modern times bled buckets on many occasions. The list of unraced mares (horses who were either too slow to run or too infirm) who have been great producers is a mile long. Stallions cull themselves out after a few years by either producing or not. The decline of the quality of horses bred in this country has almost nothing to do with these circumstantial factors and almost everything to do with the quantity and desire to produce strictly fast horses.
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