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Originally Posted by Kasept
Actually, it is the 2nd positive of his career. Both have been with Class 4 items. The first was the Isoxsuprine case with Can't Beat It in Chicago. Illinois ended up agreeing with Wolfson on the case, over-turned the violation, and then changed their own withdrawl guidelines on the product from an outlandish 21 days when the rest of the country uses 4-7 days as the guideline.
This is the point of the RMTC Model Rules project. Horsemen widely use things like anti-infammatories, and the guidelines and levels are all over the place for them. In this case, Wolfson took It's a Bird off it 120 hours before the race. In New York, they suggest coming off it only 48 hours before... Other jurisdictions suggest 96-120 hours. Arkansas doesn't even have a published guideline in the system.
Here's the RMTC Withdrawl Times engine:
http://www.rmtcnet.com/withdrawal_agree.asp
You're going to continue to have these kinds of positives with the wide disparities in allowable levels of the various medications. Like Todd Pletcher's Procaine positive and Disqualification with Wait a While in the Breeders' Cup... |
And if the trainer cannot get with his vet to figure it out then they should keep getting stiffer and stiffer penalties.
These guys are always innocent, always have an excuse......they could be confused with convicts to that extent. Its never their fault, they did not do it, and even if they did its the structural make up of the system.