Re: Are Racehorses Getting Slower. Not in Kentucky (422 Views)
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Silver Charm (IP Logged)
Date: January 16, 2005 09:48AM
Having a Ky politician publically say one thing and then go behind the scenes to do everything possible to work against the position he just spoke of is the standard. Also his message was directly to the Ky newspapers saying we don't ever want any of our dirty laundry print, you hear now.
The fact that a racehorse in Ky needs a half dozen performance enhancing medications in his system on race-day is considered as Ms. Bunning stated ok by: "current therapeutic medication statutes and regulations for Kentucky". If the medications are therapeutic then how about giving them to the horse AFTER THE RACE race not right before. If a horse is running sore he could actually be doing more damage to himself than his "doped up" body knows.
I can tell you I have heard numerous stories of horses becoming so "sore" as they leave the "spit box" they could hardly get back to their stalls. One just after he WON The Kentucky Derby.
The fact that field size and simulcast signals are part of the decision-making process corrupts everything. Demanding "a preponderance of peer-reviewed published scientific research demonstrating that the policy in place is not in the best interest of the health and well-being of the equine athlete" is clearly a stall tactic. This would take years and have a lot of gray areas. Again if the "equine athlete" needs race day drugs to race, why is he racing in the first place? Perhaps we can call the 6,000 Owners and Trainers in Ky they say they have on board to find out. Publish the list please.
In summation why a State-wide newspaper is part of the movement to not change the current policy is totally beyond me. Then again this is the same newspaper when Louisville basketball coach Rick Pitino complained of stomach gas last year, ran it as Front Page story, listed churches where the citizens could go light candles and pray and when he returned to work three days later called him courageous.
Big-Time.