IEAH attempts to take the high road...

[parsixfarms]

Originally Posted by blackthroatedwind

I wish there was some way to wave a magic wand and suddenly make the public understand that the problem is undetectable designer drugs....and not the stuff everyone can use. While I am sure a case could be made that there is abuse of allowable medications it is the undetectable stuff that is far and away damaging the game the most.

Agreed. This is why the focus needs to be enhanced testing and, perhaps more importantly, stiffer penalties when they are caught (so perhaps the guys using these currently undetectable drugs will think twice if getting caught means an end to his or her career). When you think of it in this context, the penalty given to Biancone last year was really a slap on the wrist.

[Cannon Shell]

Originally Posted by parsixfarms

Agreed. This is why the focus needs to be enhanced testing and, perhaps more importantly, stiffer penalties when they are caught (so perhaps the guys using these currently undetectable drugs will think twice if getting caught means an end to his or her career). When you think of it in this context, the penalty given to Biancone last year was really a slap on the wrist.

I think that testing will always have big holes in it. Funding, the huge volume of horses, thousands of possible drugs, lack of research,etc. What could be done is real live investigators that keep the backside under real surveillence. Random searches, tests done on items found in vets trucks, etc. If you find something solid like they did with Biancone, throw the book at them. Hire real investagators and hire enough of them. Hell, plant listening devices on the backside if you want. But testing will never be efficent enough to really do the job.

[blackthroatedwind]

Originally Posted by Cannon Shell

I think that testing will always have big holes in it. Funding, the huge volume of horses, thousands of possible drugs, lack of research,etc. What could be done is real live investigators that keep the backside under real surveillence. Random searches, tests done on items found in vets trucks, etc. If you find something solid like they did with Biancone, throw the book at them. Hire real investagators and hire enough of them. Hell, plant listening devices on the backside if you want. But testing will never be efficent enough to really do the job.

Considering Patrick is a friend of mine, and someone I have talked to quite a lot, I can safely say listening devices would be useless with him.

[Scurlogue Champ]

Originally Posted by blackthroatedwind

Considering Patrick is a friend of mine, and someone I have talked to quite a lot, I can safely say listening devices would be useless with him.

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[parsixfarms]

Originally Posted by blackthroatedwind

Considering Patrick is a friend of mine, and someone I have talked to quite a lot, I can safely say listening devices would be useless with him.

OK, hire translators, too. Or are you suggesting that wouldn't solve the problem??

[Cannon Shell]

Originally Posted by blackthroatedwind

Considering Patrick is a friend of mine, and someone I have talked to quite a lot, I can safely say listening devices would be useless with him.

In all seriousness they may have proved his claim that he had no knowledge of the stuff.