>All great ideas but probably too expensive

Too expensive for who miff, the industry or the player. As usual the thought process is way to narrow and short-sighted. Where are the John Gaines and Nerud's of the game anymore.

Would it not be important for the games integrity to know who is racing on illegal drugs. Would it not be important for the Breeders of the world to know not only who raced on illegal drugs but who TRAINED HEAVILY on drugs that would be illegal on race day. A horse who has a decent pedigree and a good race record and received few drugs has to have more value than one well-bred animal with a similar race record who was a four-legged pharmacy.

People spend big money buying horses, syndicating horses and there is very little medical information available to them. Is this the way it works when taking out a big Life Insurance Policy. I doubt it.

Everyone should be willing to pitch in a small share. Even the Ins Co.'s would be relieved. What a stupid idea it was to create Equibase, right???

What we need is an equine information body. Lets call it VetMD.