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Let's just be honest. Very few people inside racing really want to clean it up. Instead they want to maintain the status quo.
These moderate improvements and relying on testing will never catch any real cheating. It didn't in cycling and it won't in racing. All it does is provide a smokescreen that horsemen actually care.
Everyone in the know in racing realizes that the amount of cheating going on now is widespread. Look at the some of the results the last few years in the marquee Grade 1 races held in Security and out of Security. Many of the elite trainers are the biggest offenders. Everyone knows it and even when they get caught it get's swept under the rug. Accidental, coincidence, contamination.
Take a look at the results over the next few weeks and months. When a horse improves miraculously or does something beyond belief just take a minute and think about Lance Armstrong and his miraculous rides up the mountains in France that everyone ooh'd and ahh'd about even though it was obvious that he wasn't clean. The exact same thing happens in racing. Particularly on races that don't have enhanced security and out of competition testing.
And don't worry nothing will change. No one really wants to pull back the covers because what's under the covers is just too scary to see.
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