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Originally Posted by GenuineRisk
It's not an advantage if every horse may use it. It doesn't make a horse run faster than they can; it gives them a better chance to run to the best of their ability because they are less likely to be running with blood in their lungs. If minimizing the effects of a horse's natural physical shortcomings is giving an unfair advantage we should also ban any sort of corrective surgery, whether for crooked legs or flipped palates. Bone chips? They're out of racing for good.
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Horses with Lasix run faster than horses without Lasix. Period. If you like the "drug them all" to make things even, go for it.
Since when are surgery and drugs the same thing? Terrible comparison.