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Old 10-03-2012, 04:51 PM
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Originally Posted by Riot View Post
If you give lasix (which is simply a loop diuretic) to a horse that does not experience EIPH due to it's work (such as an elite-level cutting horse, a barrel racer), no, lasix will not improve it's performance.

Lasix is not a stand-alone performance enhancer.

Every study I've ever done, and there were many, showed a very high percentage of horses ran faster with 1st time Lasix than they ever did pre-Lasix, so this simply isn't true. Of course these days the sample size is way too small to test because most horses apparently bleed at birth.
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