Wow, someone actually gets it...

Originally Posted by Cannon Shell

No kidding...

Ok then lets tell it like it is, they are not vitamins.
If you are going to sell an animals it is
suggested by some to give the horse equipose
for the coat even though the horse is fine physically.

The hormone, which is basically a dervatitive of testoterone
(other brands have slightly diff. chemical structure so they
can be marketed under another name) are used on horses
that dont need them.

I attempted very poorly apparently (fat soluble) to explain
one reason why the levels are hard to measure.

Sorry for the interruption.

[Cannon Shell]

Originally Posted by pgardn

Ok then lets tell it like it is, they are not vitamins.
If you are going to sell an animals it is
suggested by some to give the horse equipose
for the coat even though the horse is fine physically.

The hormone, which is basically a dervatitive of testoterone
(other brands have slightly diff. chemical structure so they
can be marketed under another name) are used on horses
that dont need them.

I attempted very poorly apparently (fat soluble) to explain
one reason why the levels are hard to measure.

Sorry for the interruption.

I was using vitamins as an example of a non steroid performance enhancer, not calling them the same. Dont you have some delinquent's term paper on the history of the WNBA to grade?

Originally Posted by Cannon Shell

I was using vitamins as an example of a non steroid performance enhancer, not calling them the same. Dont you have some delinquent's term paper on the history of the WNBA to grade?

Fortunately no.
Very Unfortunate for the board though.

I can control myself, I can.

[Riot]

Nice avatar

I just saw Steve Crist's editorial from June 13. I think he's nailed it.

http://www.drf.com/drfNewsArticle.do?NID=95470

The dangerously scary part, that makes me slightly sick to my stomach when I consider that it may come true:

The most dangerous thing about these hearings is that they open the door to far more pernicious mandates than a ban on a non-essential drug. Rep. Ed Whitfield, Republican of Kentucky, the ranking subcommittee member and driving force behind the hearings, has reached out to racing officials and journalists to gather information. He is married to Connie Harriman-Whitfield, the vice chair of the Kentucky Horse Racing Authority and a senior vice president of the Humane Society of the United States, which has launched a petition drive to ban all racing of 2-year-olds.

"These horses must start racing at the tender age of two years, and that's well before their skeletal systems are sturdy enough to endure the pounding from the rigors of the race track," said Wayne Pacelle, president and chief executive officer of the Humane Society.

That's the sort of sentiment about tender baby horses that sounds sweet and noble until you consider that it is dangerously at odds with veterinary consensus and common sense. Research indicates that horses who race as 2-year-olds, subjecting those developing skeletal systems to beneficially formative stress, break down less often than horses who do not race until they are older. Yet Pacelle advocates no racing until 3 and making the Triple Crown a series for 4-year-olds.