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Paul Bittar calls for life bans on horses tested poitive for steroids
Life bans for the people responsible, not the horses. They had no say in the matter so why should they be penalised? Imagine what the outcry would have been like if Best Mate, Dessie, Rock of Gibraltar, Galileo, etc, had been banned for life.
talk the talk is fine Mr Bittar …but how about releasing the Zarooni report …then we can take you serious
until then your just a bookie’s man , no more and no less
in my opinion of course
Ricky
Imagine what the outcry would have been like if Best Mate, Dessie, Rock of Gibraltar, Galileo, etc, had been banned for life.
What on earth makes you think there would have been an outcry ?
Imagine what the outcry would have been like if Best Mate, Dessie, Rock of Gibraltar, Galileo, etc, had been banned for life.
What on earth makes you think there would have been an outcry ?
Galileo or Best Mate, multi Grade 1 winners being banned from ever running again? Why do you think there wouldn’t be? It’s not like the horses can say give me the drugs as humans can do.
Imagine what the outcry would have been like if Best Mate, Dessie, Rock of Gibraltar, Galileo, etc, had been banned for life.
What on earth makes you think there would have been an outcry ?
Galileo or Best Mate, multi Grade 1 winners being banned from ever running again? Why do you think there wouldn’t be? It’s not like the horses can say give me the drugs as humans can do.
But if they were found to have had steroids given to them early in their careers and banned they wouldn’t have gone on to be multiple G1 winners. If they were found with steroids later everyone would have assumed they had always been on steroids and the respect for them would have gone. A bit like Encke, people now really have no respect for his Leger win because of the suspicion that he may have had steroids administered.And that’s just suspicion. If last Installment wins on Friday he will never be loved because of his association with Fenton, and Fenton hasn’t even been proved to have done anything wrong yet. Linford Christie was one of our best athletes and very well respected and liked. Olympic and World Champion. Does anyone really respect his achievements now ?
Life bans for the people responsible, not the horses. They had no say in the matter so why should they be penalised?
isn’t the fundamental issue with drugs the pollution of the breed ?
if it was just a matter of level-playing-field, that might as well be achieved by total free-for-all as by total ban.
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