Re: Smarty Jones is the Next Secretariat (593 Views)
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jwo7 (IP Logged)
Date: May 22, 2004 02:30PM
I don't think its fair to say that Smarty's accomplishments are tainted by the fact that Servis has given him Lasix. Its a new era in racing with a vast majority of the horses recieving performance inhancing drugs. His dominance, using lasix, against other horses using lasix is no less impressive than the superstars of yesteryear dominating their rivals without the use of such drugs. It's all relative to the competiotion. It's not like Smarty had Lasix and no one else did. To compare today's horses and those of previous generations is like comparing apples to oranges. Under your assumption, the achievemnets of Lance Armstrong, or the like, are tainted by the progress in performance medicine?