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Old 11-05-2007, 09:36 AM
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Originally Posted by Riot
I am certainly not prepared to paint every trainer as guilty until proven innocent.

I have no problem looking at trainers with multiple drug positives (obviously don't care about regulations) far differently than trainers that historically come back clean, time after time, horse after horse.
I tend to agree with you on both of these arguments. I do believe that the vast majority of the trainers on the backside are honest, hard-working individuals who play the game within the rules. The point that I was trying to make is that, like drug testing in human athletic contests, the cheaters are always likely to be ahead of the testers. The conclusion that has been drawn by many on this thread that a certain trainer must be clean because he/she has no, or only a few positives, does not necessarily follow from the facts on which the conclusion is based.
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