This will effectively kill horse racing

[freddymo]

Originally Posted by Cannon Shell

http://www.paulickreport.com/news/ra...ance-on-drugs/

It is always comforting that federal legislation can be filed based on the "beliefs" of several friends of the Congressman with zero actual proof or evidence. It is also nice that instead of actually trying to come up with effective rules the people behind this crusade choose to throw out all common sense and "ban" everything despite zero evidence that simple detection of a medication at a microscopic level can have any effect on a horses performance.

Using the theory that a horse should be immune to all physical frailties in order to be able to run (which is pretty much the theory that the agenda people operate under) means that virtually every horse I have ever trained shouldn't have been allowed to run. Making "zero tolerance" a law will effectively make it impossible to fill a card as it will be necessary to withdraw all medications, even innocuous ones that treat chronic issues like stomach ulcers or allergies, a week or more to avoid a ridiculously minute positive. If you asked the NFL to operate under this standard you would have a 2 game season. Owners will rapidly leave the sport simply because this legislation makes a large percentage of the equine population impossibly expensive to train. At some point, maybe sooner than later, the industry will be asked to pay for this legislation and that will most certainly come from a take out increase and possibly from purses.

And in the end like the banning of steroids, all the supposed "good" that will occur, won't, and this will be all for naught.....as usual. This is like banning all human medications because some people abuse Xanex. They just miss the point.

Horses don't ask for meds to keep them well or pain free. No gastroguard growing wild that they go eat everyday. Your NFL thoughts fail to represent the obvious adults are making decisions for their own behalf. Horses only require such treatment because they are in an environment which is artificial to what they would do naturally. Ultimately, people need to medicate horses responsible but everyones veiw of responsible is different. When dutrow years ago told the press he gives ALL of his horses Winstrol he didnt think he was being iresponsible he really thought it helped them. I never understood why hyperbaric chambers were deemed illegal for use the week of raceday? It's oxygen for g-ds sake? How the heck is that bad fr a horse? because it feels better faster? Anyway my point is comparing humans shooting themselves at halftime of an NFL game is completely differt then making a horse eat 2 butes a day so he can stay fit and train.