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This is a subject that fascinates me, I’ve read quite a bit about it from literature in the US, does anyone have any links they could post up, drug names, effects and side effects?
I would be very grateful.
If you can access those articles they’ve got everything from milkshakes to cone snail venom.<br>I do take Richard’s point though. We’re not ignoring the subject.
Thank you for that response Zorro, and good luck in yours and the RPs endeavours.
Just to add to my previous posts, from my point of view, think this is a very serious subject. I do own racehorses who are always entered and run on merit -as are most horses Whether I would continue owning when my horses come to the end of their racing life if I thought that the odds are stacked against mine because of corrupt practices, I very much doubt. And I meet other owners who have similar views.
The other point which I think is equally important is racehorse welfare. I don’t know much about and don’t particularly follow USA racing. But reportedly there is a very high breakdown rate. Reports I’ve read put this down to the dirt racing surfaces, but then the polytrack purveyors would put out that kind of pr.
Bound to ask whether that high breakdown rate is in part due to horses running on drugs -some of which are legal in the USA . In this country if a horse goes wrong and finds running painful it is likely to stop or at least slow down. But if the pain, and the damage, is masked then he or she could keep going to the point of serious consequences.
So if the RP were to conduct a determined journalistic investigation, even if their findings couldn’t be published immediately, think that would be of great benefit to racing and to the RP.
richard
I owe Zorro an apology.<br>His articles on the ‘medication’ of horses, which I have accessed through the RP website today, are informative and visionary along with his article on handicapping:<br>"System that makes victims of the honest performers". <br>I have had this pinned on my board since it was written in 2001.<br>
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