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Originally Posted by castaway01
I agree. I can see where Dutrow getting a lifetime ban is unfair compared to the other trainers with similar lists of offenses who haven't been banned. However, to me that means racing should have cracked down on others and given them similar bans, not that we should lift the punishment for one of the few times racing actually enforced the rules.
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Forget similar. What about trainers with far worse "lists?"
I went and looked over Dutrow's "list."
Most of the violations are for late administrative paperwork or errors or other non-medication non-horse-health violations.
As for meds, they were detailed above. One that wasn't mentioned was for a Lasix violation.
And many of the legal med violations were for very minor overages above the legal limit.
One thing you can accuse him of accurately was that he was sloppy and lazy in a couple of necessary departments, which led to a lot of these violations.
