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The perception of this sport has very little to do with lasix. |
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Refusing to acknowledge that lasix is a preventative measure clouds your entire argument. |
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The American racing industry should stop being a club of old rich but rather ignorant men, harrumping and grunting about lasix and steroids and thinking they are making a difference, and start stepping up into the 21st century like the rest of the world. It would be good to reflect upon why the racing industry isn't embracing what's common in other elite performance horse sports in the rest of the world, and continues to cry about ... lasix? Seriously? All the problems in racing, and they are setting fire to the straw man of lasix?
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"Have the clean racing people run any ads explaining that giving a horse a Starbucks and a chocolate poppyseed muffin for breakfast would likely result in a ten year suspension for the trainer?" - Dr. Andrew Roberts |
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Again, in what other sport, anywhere, is nearly every competitor given drugs on the day of the race? |
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I will tell you we are experimenting with working some horses in our barn without lasix and scoping after to see if they are bleeding. I think that the reason is because my boss can see the writing on the wall, people who are not really involved on a daily basis with these athletes are going to try and dictate what can and cannot be done in regards to the well being of racers.
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Horses are like strawberries....they can go bad overnight. Charlie Whittingham |
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![]() And you dont know that ....how could you? Are you in every locker room? Are you at every dog race? You dont know if athletes are taking 4 to 6 advil before they compete in every event. You dont know if they are hitting an over the counter inhaler to open up their lungs. Believe me if you dont think that pro athletes competing for their salaries arent making sure they do everything to make sure their performance is the best it can be then you surley believe all politicans care about you.
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Horses are like strawberries....they can go bad overnight. Charlie Whittingham |
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![]() What other sport directly makes money from gambling?
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![]() So all analogies to other sports are going to be off limits because of betting? It is an imperfect world in which we live in. Unfortunately there is no way to satisfy everyone and sometimes in trying to satisfy some of the people some of the time the unintended consequences prove fatal.
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What other sport are players not allowed to use an injection to prevent their lungs from filling up with blood or any liquid substance? Are IV's performance enhancers? Should althletes be banned from taking an IV during a game if they get dehydrated? |
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![]() The evidence that the general public gives a damn about anything we do in this sport is flimsy. For those which are ardent followers of the sport I can think of many better ways to address the perception issue than elimnating raceday lasix (in other words for the majority of people, taking the L in the program away). This sport has a lot of huge issues staring it in the face and lasix usage or lack there of is hardly going to solve any of them.
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