TGJB wrote:

> I wrote a VERY long letter to the editor (900 words) about
> drugs, rebates etc., that will either appear in DRF (they want
> 600 words,we are negotiating about cuts and language about
> their coverage)

In case it slip through the cracks...let us know when its published. I trust the DRF will do the right thing. Its hard to take criticism, but theres a time and a place and I think Crist is pro legitimacy. All of his work heretofore leans that way.

Lots of positive looking stories in the online DRF for Friday.

Interesting about your EPO testing ideas. I guess if you're not rolling for a claim they don't tell you. Imagine that? Sounds like Graph Racing needs to do some claiming ever now and then to keep apprised of substance testing issues...lol Well things are gonna change or I'll move over to calculating the point spreads.

Heres a DRF blurb about a horse I caught in the Lexington last year. He died from what sounds like a simple operation. Certainly doesn't sound like it involved his heart or lungs. Maybe he didn't make it out of the anesthesia. These big animals are fragile, they shouldn't be pumping drugs into them. Asmussen picked him up for the Lexington, I'm not sure he had him at his death.

Quintons Gold Rush dead

Quintons Gold Rush, a Grade 2 winner who most recently finished ninth in the Malibu Stakes on Dec. 26, has died at age 4 at San Luis Rey Equine Hospital in California. The colt was undergoing a surgical procedure on Monday on a nasal tumor when he died.

Announcement of his death was made by Nadia Sanan, general manager of her family's Padua Stables, which owned Quintons Gold Rush in partnership with Jay Manoogian. Bred by Toyomi Omiya in Kentucky, Quintons Gold Rush won the Grade 2 Lexington Stakes in 2004. He had a record of 3-1-0 from 10 starts and a $329,835 bankroll.



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