HP, here's the problem.

Lets say that a trainer who gets a positive test gets arrested and charged. This would go to court.....the trainer would say, "i didn't put any drugs in my horse, someone else must have done it when i wasn't looking"

Can you really arrest and convict a trainer for drugging if you don't actually SEE him put drugs inside the horse?

If you had an arch enemy who was a trainer, all you would have to do is to pay off some groom to slip the horse an illegal drug in the middle of the night and wallah, instand jailtime for the guy you hate.

Who would want to be a trainer if they knew they'd get a criminal record and possibly jail time if some chemical happened to show up in their horses system?

Imagine being a family man with a wife and kids and your horse eats some contaminated hay and the next thing you know the FBI is hauling you away in handcuffs in front of your children and neighbors?

Personally, i'd never want to be a trainer if there was even a 1% chance i'd be mistakenly hauled away by the FBI...i mean, who needs that?



Edited 1 time(s). Last edit at 03/15/2007 03:00PM by imallin.