25 trainers urge Lasix-ban; THA says issue debated, decided

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Originally Posted by Cannon Shell

I don't believe that he was given a 10 year ban as a warning regardless of how they framed it. I believe they supported this extreme ban because they wanted to justify their own existence and remain in their jobs by answering the number 1 criticism of regulators, that they were too easy on repeat offenders.

Dutrow gave them plenty of ammunition to use against him.
Rick is a likable guy. People think that the "juice" trainers are all sinister douchbags when a lot of the supposed good guys are just that. However that confuses personality with wrongdoing.

What escapes most people is that many of the juice guy owners seem to do just fine when they move onto making the next juice guy. Now they have even smartened up and are changing the stable names every time the heat comes.

You have a lot of highly skilled trainer at every track. As in any other walk of life success does not make you a good or a bad person, it just makes you successful at your trade, nothing more nothing less.