I think any horse entering a race should have to prove it has been drug-free for a minimum of 90 days.
A medical record for all race horses should be mandatory from the time the enter training as a two-year old. Falsifications or omission of any procedure would be seriously dealt with - ie, horse unable to run for 6 months, trainer fined, owner fined. Something that hurts $$$.
The technology for this and most other of the feeble excuses the racing industry makes for its incompetence exits today - not using it is unacceptable. This is 2018, not 1968.
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