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Originally Posted by dilanesp
But at some point, Lasix's performance enhancing capabilities (and masking capabilities) became clear enough that it became important to horsemen to administer the drug to horses who had never established themselves as bleeders.
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Administering any medication to a living being when they don't have a diagnosis that requires it makes no logical sense. Ditto, giving every horse in a barn Thyro-L when they have no illness that requires its use (on or off-label).
The guys in bernie madoff's office, or the real life characters about whom wolf of wallstreet and boiler room were made, felt they needed some "synthetic energy" because a good sleep, a good breakfast, a morning walk, and a peppermint wasn't "performance enhancing" enough. When winning is everything, and there's big $$ in the picture, people tend to become rather illogical in their justification of certain practices.
