REES: Emulate Europe... Why?

[Cannon Shell]

It is amazing to me that
A. Anyone cares what people in Europe think about our racing?
They ignore the World Series so should we not hold it anymore?

B. That people think so little of horseman and vets that they won't even consider that even the dumbest among us knows considerably more about racehorses and the issue of EIPH than they do. Most are educated by reading cliff notes versions of "studies" that they don't even understand. Yet vets who have treated thousands of horses with varying degrees of EIPH are ignored.

C. That somehow banning Lasix will "improve the breed". How so? Mares are bred primarily based on pedigree and at least 90% of stallions fail and don't have much lasting impact. So eliminating "bleeders" is going to happen how exactly?

D. The lessons of the steroid ban have obviously not been learned. Handle is now declining when we were promised increases. Field size is not different. For the most part the same guys are winning and the same guys arent. Obvious illegal steroid guys like Guerrero have emerged. The vaunted general public still doesn't give a damn.

E. Completely underestimating the negative impact on owners

F. That the racing will somehow be better despite more erratic form due to various factors contributing to horses bleeding more severely. The thought that horses won't bleed more often or more severely when you take away the primary medication that controls it is beyond idiotic. Hell lets ban cancer drugs and maybe we will find the cure after all. Or at the very least let all the weak people die so they dont pass their cancer genes along. Let's further expand that to include blood pressure and hypertension meds. Just think of how much our health costs will decrease! The human race will be stronger!