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I am not sure what planet you are on because you continue to spout rubbish and present it as fact.
Neither I or VVV have ever condoned the use of drugs of any kind on race day your post continue to present a case that we have and I for one am bloody sick of the inference.
I have and never will consider lasix as an acceptable race day drug for many reason so stop bringing the current policy change in the USA up as supporting your view it simply does not.
The short answer of what is actually happening in the USA if you really want to know is they are moving towards aligning themselves with the testing procedures for therapeutic drugs currently in use in most racing jurisdictions in the world. The reality of this fact is that it actually supports the argument put forward by VVV and myself that the correct use of therapeutic drugs is doing little harm to the industry.
As I have said before in relation to the use of therapeutic drugs in Australian Racing the rules between the gallops and the harness are now all but harmonised due in part to the work of HRNSW to get ulcer treatments and regu mate permitted in harness years after it was permitted in the gallops.
If your view that therapuitic drugs are damaging the sport was correct the gallops would have ground to a halt years ago.
All I and VVV have ever said and I think will continue to say, is that minute traces of genuine therapeutic drugs found in urine swabs as metabolites in many cases currently represent the fast majority of positive swabs in Australia in both codes. There is in many cases a strong argument to say the parent drug is no longer having any effect on the horse.
Your half smart comment about EPO being a therapeutic treatment toward the end of you last sermon is so stupid that it beggers belief, anyone with an IQ of 1 would know that throughout this and other threads both VVV and I have been referring to accepted genuine equine therapeutic substances you know it and so does everybody else who has read the posts, so stop your grandstanding.
If you want to debate with me feel free but at least debate on what I have said or put forward rather than your interpretation of what I have said.
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