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Originally Posted by Fager Fan
The dangers of the drug were always obvious. What it did immediately was make a horse not feel bone pain because it stopped the remodeling that created the bone pain. There's no horseman out there who doesn't hear that one sentence and know how dangerous that makes this drug. No vet or trainer has any excuse at all for ever using this drug with a horse in training.
There are cases of horses who haven't started remodeling correctly fourteen months after administration.
I've been telling people about this drug and how damning it is since I learned of it early last year. As usual, racing waits until a crisis hits to react.
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where did you hear about these cases of horses who haven't started remodeling correctly fourteen months later
