Beyer in Chilie

[PatCummings]

Originally Posted by Cannon Shell

Why does anyone think that horses are racing drug free in other countries? Because they don't admit to running on Lasix? LOL. Yeah ok. Many of the "advances" in juice come directly from other countries. Brett Pelling and the "Blue magic" are direct imports from down under.

Here is a link from "drug-free" Australia http://www.theage.com.au/news/Horse-...996492071.html

Doesn't sound much different than here

Biancone didn't arrive on these shores squeaky clean only to be corrupted by our "drug culture".

Does anyone really believe South American racing is drug free?

Remember when Japanese trained Deep Impact tested positive in the Arc?http://www.drf.com/news/deep-impact-...tive-after-arc

As for using Dubai as an example of Drug free racing remember that there were more races run in the US last weekend than will be run in Dubai all year.

The idea that American bloodlines have been "weakened" by medication is laughable but sadly many people will continue to believe such nonsense. Foreign buyers buy far more bloodstock at public auction here than anywhere else.

Sadlers Wells- American bred (leading sire in Europe)
Danehill- American bred (leading sire in Europe and Australia)
More than Ready- American bred (top 3 sire in Australia)

Most of the top mares bought at Keeneland that are exported as breding stock are American bred.

The two most childish and simplistic (and absolutely wrong) myths about horseracing are the "medication weakens the breed" and "only a commissioner can save the game".

I am not, nor have I ever, suggested that racing in Dubai or anywhere else was drug-free - I would suggest, however, that the height of the rubbish from American trainers about needing to "give their horses time" is a result of permissive race-day medication usage. And if it isn't, then where does that come from?

Nowhere else but in North America do trainers regularly cite those needs - and to say that horses cannot perform at top levels, within say three to seven days after a previous top effort is simply ignorant. It happens with absolute regularity most everywhere else in the world at some point in the year. The closest to that happening in the US is the Triple Crown.

Would anyone like to offer some suggestions as to what it is that makes our trainers unable to garner the same performance from their horses as trainers on four other continents?