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Originally Posted by classhandicapper
This is where it gets messy.
Some people have already paid millions of dollars for stallions and/or their offspring with an eye towards hopefully breeding them too.
If someone can demonstrate statistically that certain lines are more prone to bleeding and successfully argue they should be excluded, a lot of those investments will be damaged or go up in flames. So there isn't much incentive for owners and breeders to want to run without Lasix and potentially expose their horses and money to negative information.
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What standard would "prove" something like that, who would set the standard, what would you do with all of the horses who don't meet the standard...it's impossible because it's not that cut and dried. The industry would be better off just banning Lasix and dealing with the lawsuits filed that follow rather than spending years of research trying to prove something unprovable.
