Thanks for posting this, Delmar Deb.

This makes me curious how tightly controlled racing jurisdictions handle matters such as feed supplements that can have the effect of drugs (although we never got the joint injection information anyway). Two jurisdictions that come to mind are Hong Kong and Australia. Does anybody know how stuff like this is handled there?

It seems to me that just as bettors are informed about Bute, Lasix, Gelding, Shoes, etc, we should also get good information on whether the horses we bet on are getting injections (or injection substitutes). In baseball, the whole world finds out every time a player is getting an injection in lieu of surgery. Desi Relaford is an obscure player that comes to mind -- he is playing this year with injections instead of having surgery on his cartilage. Isn't it strange that I know this and I do not bet baseball, while I do bet horses and I know nothing about the injection history of the horses I bet? Makes me feel like a chump.

Baseball is a sport that asiduously avoids any connection with gambling, yet it provides this kind of information to its patrons. Horseracing depends on gambling for its existence, yet it keeps the source of its life support (us) in the dark on basic matters. Isn't something wrong here?

I think I recall somebody once telling me that in Hong Kong, they inform the public of all injuries to horses and how the injury is being treated (maybe this is wishful thinking). It just seems to me embarrasing that I bet so much when I am actually in the dark about some potentially very important information.