Raceday Medications USA

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VVV no doubt this will be beyond your comprehension

CLASS 4 This class includes therapeutic medications that would be expected to have less potential to affect performance then thosein CLASS 3. Drugs in this class include less potent diuretics, corticosteroids, antihitimines and skeletal muscle relaxants without prominent central nervous system effects; expectorants and mucolytics; hemostatics; cardiac glycosides and anti arrythmics; topical anestetics; anti diahiarreals and mild analgesics. This classification also includes non steroidal anti inflammatory drugs at concentrations greater then established limits.

Now VVV as you will no doubt have no idea what that means let me give you just one to sink your teeth into- Phenylbutozone, perhaps I should use the simple name though, give you half a chance to get it -BUTE

I don't know how to put it any simpler then I already have VVV, you do not have to risk a class one positive for morphine when you can go well over the therapeutic threshold allowed for bute and meerly get a slap on the wrist. VVV you keep the race and the prizemoney and in many instances pay nothing more then a fine of a few hundred dollars.

VVV you claim to have an enquiring mind, why don't you read the chemical horse article you may be surprised by what you learn

[VVV] Dot, both yourself and your mate Little Sir Echo (who rather notably wasn't able to answer any of the questions put to him with regard to his statements) need to get some sort of a grip on reality here.

As VOR has repeatedly told you both and as you have both repeatedly ignored, the fact is that the VAST majority of overages are of a therapeutic nature.

Despite VOR's good advice, undaunted you chose to line up on US Racing and then tied in with it a bagging of the durability of the resultant sires and siring prospects as a result of the use of drugs.

Well here's a jolt back into the real world for you.

Of ALL the tests taken from both racehorse codes in the USA in 2011, some 325,423 samples in total, less than one half of 1% (0.491%)..... or just short of 1600 of them....actually returned a positive test to anything.

Of those just short of 1600 that returned a positive test, 94.5% were overages of legal equine therapeutic medications.

On the flipside, genuine attempts at doping horses with Class 1 or Class 2 substances accounted for less than 0.012% of the tests conducted, some 39 instances in total from 325,423.

Clearly your position on this subject and that of Little Sir Echo...is simply not born out by the cold, hard facts.