Re: Kryptonite (467 Views)
Posted by:
richiebee (IP Logged)
Date: September 02, 2007 04:26AM
Sight:
I do not think that the entities which underwrite equine mortality policies
were on the cutting edge of performance enhancing substances and methods which
may or may not have had anything to do with the deaths of 3 Pletcher runners
following peak performances in 2002. Equine insurers then and now feel much
more at home with all too frequent instances of compound fractures, colic and
laminitis, with starting gate and paddock injuries, with animals cast in their
stalls.
I think it is fair to say that these insurers (or single insurer, if that was
the case) had never been confronted with three deaths of this nature in such a
close time sequence; indeed, insurers may not have looked at the demise of these
3 runners as being related.
In between the time that Left Bank was retired and the time he died, Thorograph
poster Jurmala Berzins, posting on September 21, 2002, said the following:
"How about putting up (Left Bank's TG) seeing that he's retired. A good example
of EPO and who knows what else at work". CtC isn't alone in Roswell.
I will say it again, knowing of course that nothing will come of it: Were blood
samples from the 3 deceased animals drawn? Were they frozen? Could these samples
be subjected to Racing's 2007 state of the art (probably only one step behind
the successful cheaters) "supertesting"? (Since these cases are closed, and
Racing could only suffer from the conduct of such tests, they will never be
undertaken.)
Interesting, Sight, that in a related post you respond to CtC's allegations of
blood doping by saying that NYRA has been testing for that... since 2003.