Re: Another View of Modern Racing From Bobby Trussell (478 Views)
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sighthound (IP Logged)
Date: October 05, 2007 08:14PM
While those drugs can allow a horse to race, I don't see anything there that makes a horse run faster than it can via genetics and training. Those drugs enable being able to run. Obviously a lame horse is slower than a sound one, and a horse bleeding into it's lungs slows or stops.
The test is that if you give those drugs to a sound, healthy horse, they don't make him any faster than he already is.
Edit: horses from our fairly recent past raced on alot of drugs that could indeed alter performance: cocaine, heroin, caffines, amphetamines, etc.
The concept of "drug free racing" is very, very recent indeed.