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- From: Stovall@f88.n106.z1.fidonet.org (Stovall)
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- Newsgroups: rec.equestrian
- Subject: Drugs in racing?
- Message-ID: <724876413.AA06206@urchin.fidonet.org>
- Date: Sat, 19 Dec 1992 00:25:00 -0500
- Lines: 44
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- Josh, this reply has nothing to do with the whether or not eventing is
- humane. It has to do with drugs in horse racing.
-
- JLI>I went to my first horse race a couple years ago and was
- JLI>amazed how prevalent the use of drugs was on the horses, i.e.
- JLI>stimulants and pain killers, etc.
-
- Where exactly was this horse race? Did you see a horse given a
- stimulant. Or did some railbird tell you something like, "Hoosis
- flipped in the gate 'cause they had his mixture too rich"; or, "You
- can't outrun old Bobo when they go to his head". Unless you actually
- saw a horse given a drug that you know was a CNS stimulant, you
- don't have the slightest idea what you are talking about. If some
- desperate individual thought he'd figured out a way to beat the
- test barn, I don't think that he would invite you to watch him hop
- his horse. In short: I question your veracity.
-
- Some racing jurisdictions allow the use of mild pain killers, commonly
- "bute" and asprin. No state racing commission allows the use of any
- strong pain killers such as morphine-like drugs. No state racing
- commission allows the use of ANY stimulant. The penalties for using
- drugs are quite severe: most racing commissions will rule off a trainer
- and anyone else involved in drugging an animal for a period of months
- or years...even life. Most jurisdictions will penalize a trainer or
- anyone else for having a syringe or a container of any kind of
- injectable in their possession. You see Josh, the racing commissions
- are
- pretty serious about protecting the integrity of horse racing; in fact,
- they don't even allow spectators like you in the stable area.
-
- Were you at the race track or a match race in someone's pasture?
-
- JLI>I dont think they should prohibit Horse Racing, but I guess
- JLI>none of us will never know what the sport would be like without
- JLI>stimulants???
-
- You don't know what horse racing is like, with or without stimulants.
-
- Tom Stovall
- AFA Journeyman Farrier
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