NY Task Force on Racehorse Health & Safety Report, Reccos

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Originally Posted by cmorioles

Every study I've ever done, and there were many, showed a very high percentage of horses ran faster with 1st time Lasix than they ever did pre-Lasix, so this simply isn't true.

No, that proves actually proves that lasix is efficacious at stopping EIPH. When you can breath, you can run faster and farther. When you can't breath, you slow down until you can breath, or you stop.

Your assumption is that the horses pre-lasix are not bleeding. Hard science says no, that's not true.

You say it is true because of one scope and lack of obvious blood in the nose or trachea. That's a method that misses the diagnosis of bleeding 80% of the time. Other methods with greater detection shows that yes, these horses are bleeding in their dorso-caudal lungs.