Have not posted in awhile. Hi to all.

This subject makes my blood boil. I cannot understand why injecting a horse with a drug is not treated as simply "animal abuse." There are laws against abusing animals!

If you starved your dog and your neighbor called the cops they would arrest you! If you injected your dog with drugs they would arrest you too! But if you drug a HORSE nobody can figure out what to do about it? Every state and jurisdiction has laws on the books about abusing animals. Injecting a horse with a drug to dull pain, enhance performance, whatever you want to call it, is endangering its welfare. Not to sound like too much of a tree-hugger here, but really, I'm baffled as to why these laws are not applied. I can only assume no one wants to enter this "new territory," but really, I don't get it. My effin' CAT has more rights and gets more protection than a racehorse?!? What am I missing?

The local authorities should be able to address it. You can go to jail for possessing coke but if it turns up in a horse's bloodstream it is somehow impossible to figure out how to make criminal charges against the responsible parties? It's up to the RACING AUTHORITIES? Screw that. The POLICE should arrest the trainer for animal abuse (I feel POSITIVE there are specific laws on this that could be interpeted broadly enough to apply -- let's hear from some of our lawyer posters like my pal David Patent -- if I'm wrong let me have it, youse can't be any worse than my wife!).

Take a few of these guys away in handcuffs and that will be the end of it. Why can't the existing laws apply as opposed to reinventing the wheel with the FBI, et al.?

Good luck to all... HP