Trainers and drugs

Originally Posted by paisjpq

I agree with a lot of what you guys are saying on both sides of this argument...so understand that i am not taking sides...
but it isn't rocket science or even really chemisrty to learn and understand how to use drugs to your advantage in a horse...I'm no vet...nor am I a trainer...but i've been injecting horses for years, finding a vein in a horse is not difficult...injecting joints of course is a different story (should only be done by the vet)...but it's silly to suggest that a trainer wouldn't understand how to administer medications or understand what those medications do.

You're assuming that they all posess your intelligence and education. Again, you are giving them way too much credit in many cases.

I've said it and i'll say it again.

Scoldering coat hanger up the pisshole.

[paisjpq]

Originally Posted by oracle80

You're assuming that they all posess your intelligence and education. Again, you are giving them way too much credit in many cases.

I don't think it takes education or intelligence...it's just a skill like any other...
for example: colicky horse, inject with banamine or buscopan...horse with arthritis, inject with legend and adequan...crazy horse, ace or resurpine...really sore/stiff horse, robaxin...coughing horse, ventipulmin...these are everyday things that any horse person eventually learns to do.
I don't think drugs belong in racing but they are impossible to avoid sometimes, simply to maintain the health of the animal and it is pointless to try to say that trainers don't know what they are.