NY Task Force on Racehorse Health & Safety Report, Reccos

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Originally Posted by freddymo

I tell you what I know about Clenbuterol, the biggest cheats in the game use it daily and without question it is used to enhance horses ability to run faster. Now they all bleed and they all suffer from hay and dirt in their lungs.

The biggest cheats in the game do a lot of stuff to horses in an attempt to get them to run faster. As I said, there are a whole lot of gullible people out there, and more than enough old wives tales and enablers to keep the conspiracy loons searching for the next magical miracle bullet.

They are cheats - not rocket scientists.

They are cheats - not good horse trainers.

They are cheats - not medical professionals.

They don't cheat because they are smart.

As Chuck has already pointed out, 95% of drug overages, the ones some of the public gets freaked out about, is due to microscopic overages of daily therapeutic medications in amounts that could never affect performance in a million years. Let's just keep that reality in mind.