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I'd love to hear how known bleeder Rich Tapestry was able to come over here and win a G1 without Lasix? How is it possible that he can run at all after all his documented episodes of EPIH? Shouldn't he be deteriorating to the point he can't run as well any longer? Or is he just a miracle horse?
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If the argument is that Lasix makes them run less frequently, he's not helping prove that point. He had six months off before that race he just won.
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The problem with adding a weight penalty is then trainers are going to weigh the chances of an EIPH episode with the chances of a weight break. And that puts the horse's safety and the safety of everyone else in the race at risk if, god forbid, the horse drops mid-race from an EIPH episode.
It's not an advantage if every horse may use it. It doesn't make a horse run faster than they can; it gives them a better chance to run to the best of their ability because they are less likely to be running with blood in their lungs. If minimizing the effects of a horse's natural physical shortcomings is giving an unfair advantage we should also ban any sort of corrective surgery, whether for crooked legs or flipped palates. Bone chips? They're out of racing for good.
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So I get why Servis, on the eve of the biggest race in the country, thought, "well, just in case." But it doesn't mean it actually was performance-enhancing, or that Smarty would have lost the race had he not been on it.
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Since when are surgery and drugs the same thing? Terrible comparison.
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Both corrective surgery and Lasix permit horses to run to the limit of their talent. It's an apt comparison. I like a trainer having the option to reduce the chances a horse is going to bleed in the lungs during a race.
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And again, Jerry Brown has been doing this a lot longer than I have and he believes it too. You think he doesn't know what he is talking about?
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Preposterous that a drug could make horses run faster? Come on.
Like I said, Jerry Brown thinks so, and so do I. I don't know the exact reasons, I'm not a vet. I do know I run faster when I weigh 200 then when I weigh 225. We don't get the information on which horses bled and how severe so until that happens it is impossible to prove.
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I already said I can't prove it because the public isn't given that information. We don't know if horses that raced without Lasix are then given it because they bled or not. It is a very complicated thing to study and somebody would have to be well versed in measuring racehorse speed and determining if horses bled and how much. It could be done, but I don't think either pro or anti Lasix people really know how to do it to be honest. All I can say is I trust what I believe because I put money through the windows on those opinions. It works. I wish Lasix wasn't given as commonly now as it is because there aren't many opportunities, save foreign shippers and a few trainers that don't use it early in a horse's career.
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