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Originally Posted by bob60566
Goodbye Lasix, and Good Riddance
In Europe, bleeding is managed with proper husbandry, feeding, and preparation of the horses rather than with the drug Lasix, or any other legal drugs. There, appropriate conditioning and husbandry measures maintain pulmonary health and endurance, eliminating reliance on medications to manage bleeding and unsoundness. Less medication translates to safer horse racing. Bleeding is best prevented by appropriate breeding, athletic development, abundant locomotion, husbandry, training, nutrition and conditioning rather than by drug use, which sets a grave precedent.
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Grave precedent indeed. More like the opening of Pandora’s Box. Because now it will take years to make the adjustments while horse racing is in a weak position. Once 86% of the stakes races go without Lasix the breeding of bleeders will begin to be weeded out. Plus, every horse that comes back with a drop of blood won’t be labeled a needer. Which tells everyone that it’s a short cut to making a horse run better. Plus, these stakes horses are getting less starts than horses that ran before without it. Number of starts keeps decreasing so what the hell are these drugs accomplishing? Besides breeding the next generation of even weaker horses.
That’s the problem with a race game that is top heavy with breeding cash. Got a fast horse? Needs Lasix? Who cares he wins a few big races we can retire and breed a whole batch at millions of dollars. Why think about outcome and consequences there’s mucho money to be made.....and the cycle continues where the not as fast ones need every drug and treatment in the book to run. Because they don’t have the luxury of a 6 to 15 race career. Funny though, before the drugging and the breeding syndicates the good ones could race as much as the slower ones.
And talk about the state of denial. Some of these people still think PETA is the only problem. Luckily, seems like some have seen the light and changes are finally coming even though it’s gonna hurt. Public scrutiny is here and they denied it and waited for it to come to this. Like I said in this thread pages ago. This is not going away. Not this time. Just look at some of these races. The SA Derby had 6 horses and the same day the SA Handicap had 6 horses, 2 of them were 10 lengths behind after a 24 quarter and the winner was a horse that could barely win an allowance race before. That’s the product you are selling and left with. If nobody says anything you’ll even have the nerve to brag about that or call the disgruntled people “complaining horse players”. C’mon!
