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Originally Posted by cmorioles
For me, if all horses need drugs to race, preventive or otherwise, there shouldn't be racing. I can't think of any other sport for any type of being where this would even be considered.
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So you are also against banning banamine? Omeprazole? Clenbuterol? Ketoprofen? Because there wouldn't be any horse racing without those drugs on the backstretch.
Horse racing in other countries use lasix daily as a therapeutic drug during speed training to prevent lung damage. It's just outlawed on race day. How backwards is that? It's allowed as a
therapeutic drug on the race track in the morning, but not in the afternoon?
It's 2012. We shouldn't be making medical decisions for horses based upon decades-old outdated information and assumptions from the past.