Originally Posted by
danno
(1) i really don't think the hard working, dedicated albiet often frustrated people administering our sport would, in the slightest, appreciate your desciption of them.
[vvv] i can guarentee you that amongst their number, those who have any idea at all with regard to this subject are few and far between.
(2) if it's in the "too hard basket", would this not mean the afformentioned administarors have looked at changing the rules on some therapeutic drugs but, as yet, cannot come up with a plan that works in a practicle way that the industry/sports participants can cope with?
[vvv] perhaps you're right. Despite such lists being freely available in other jurisdictions in the us & can publishing a simple list of thresholds and withdrawl times for various substances is probably beyond them.
(3) until it can be guaranteed that every time each horse races it is carrying the exact same doses of regulated drugs, then consistent form cannot be assured. Many of these drugs need to be administered 4 to 5 hours in advance of competition. In order for that to happen then each horse using regulated drugs needs to go to the track 4 to 5 hours before it's race. This may work at the meadowlands where the majority of the runners are stabled on site but in the land of oz where we are spread out over vast distances, the majority of horses are trained at private establishments and our game would not survive without hobby trainers, (who have a job to tend to) no wonder it's in the too hard basket.
[vvv] mate, we're now sending the best of today's horses down the road in 1:52's and subs at menangle and they're doing it week in week out and that's only going to ramp up in the next 12 months-2yrs+.
They're not going around richmond in 2:20 or the maitland showgrounds in 2:12, we're not in kansas anymore toto.
Just how long do you think we can reasonably expect them to physically hold together without a re-think of the therapeutic substances aspect of the current treatment rules?
a general burying heads in the sand & simply hoping it will all go away is not going to get it done.
as i've said many times before, what in blue blazes is there that's stopping us having on course vet administered lasix etc?
designated on course arrival 4hrs prior, lasix given by hrnsw vet.
all silent, all done. Other substances such as bute etc. would all placed on a very widely & very well publicised threshold basis ala tc02's.
in a somewhat timely manner for this subject/thread i see billy muscat's just scored a bute positive.
i will bet you london to a brick that whatever amount was in the horse, it was not at a level which was pharmacologically active. The bute test is bullshit, imo. It picks up trace amounts that do not add up to a knob of goat shit as far as their anti-inflamatory ability is concerned...the stuff is as good as water from the dam after about 12hrs and yet old mate's going to get grilled over it, regardless.
that's mindless. That's draconian. There has to be a better way.
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