Kentucky's ongoing attempt to end racing in state proceeds..

[Riot]

Originally Posted by cmorioles

For me, if all horses need drugs to race, preventive or otherwise, there shouldn't be racing. I can't think of any other sport for any type of being where this would even be considered.

Other horse sports do. The FEI, the Federation Equestre Internationale, for example at the Rolex International Three-Day Event here in KY now, has a list of permitted competition-day drugs, which includes certain levels of aspirin, banamine, and bute. That's right - on competition day. These drugs are not considered performance-enhancing at the allowable levels.

And the FEI is twice as tough on testing and drugs as horse racing could ever dream of being.

The Olympics has a long list of competition-day allowable drugs, and levels, that athletes can use. Includes albuterol and other "lung" (asthma) drugs.

We need to ban illegal performance enhancers. Not helpful therapeutics.

[Rupert Pupkin]

Originally Posted by Riot

Other horse sports do. The FEI, the Federation Equestre Internationale, for example at the Rolex International Three-Day Event here in KY now, has a list of permitted competition-day drugs, which includes certain levels of aspirin, banamine, and bute. That's right - on competition day. These drugs are not considered performance-enhancing at the allowable levels.

And the FEI is twice as tough on testing and drugs as horse racing could ever dream of being.

The Olympics has a long list of competition-day allowable drugs, and levels, that athletes can use. Includes albuterol and other "lung" (asthma) drugs.

We need to ban illegal performance enhancers. Not helpful therapeutics.

Banning certain drugs could actually backfire. For example, if they banned bute, it would probably make trainers more likely to inject ankles and knees. That would be worse for the horses. I don't know what the answer is.

[Powderfinger]

Certainly looks like furosemide's days are numbered. Hope it works! We all know what this is about. The industry has to drastically reduce the number of catastrophic breakdowns. We can't have Mrs. Alvarado (the NM woman in the NY Times article) bringing her family to the track only to see animals being euthanized. When people go to the track they expect to see a horse race, not a slaughterhouse. If one in five hundred NFL football players died every player start we'd have two players killed every fall weekend. How would that go over? one in five hundred is not an accident; one in five hundred is a bloodsport.