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Originally Posted by Spalding No!
NYRA allowed lasix use in the tail end of 1995.
In the first 8 months of 1995 when lasix was still prohibited, there was 25 instances of external bleeding in New York or roughly 3 per month.
In the final 4 months of 1995 when lasix was allowed, there was 4 instances of external bleeding in New York or roughly 1 per month.
Anyone here able to calculate the ratio of decline? I'm apparently having trouble with my Minnesota Instruments MI-80.
Ironically, at the time, New York appeared to be having a "good" year in terms of bleeding episodes even before allowing lasix use. The average prior to 1995 was about 58 cases per year. In subsequent years when lasix was allowed the range was about 12-16 cases per year.
So if you want to be more pessimistic or fear mongering we can say it will probably be about a 4-fold increase (again assuming nothing is done to prevent such bleeders from continuing to race). Again, nowhere near the 50-fold increase you came up with.
At any rate, I might be interested in buying your bridge, but then...
...what are you gonna live under?
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but all we've heard is how breeding is so screwed up that they breed nothing but cripples and bleeders. So to steal one from the hoss nothing is the same thirty years later. So apparently your comparison to 95' won't hold water. And in reality your comparison makes no sense anyway. Your comparing 4 instances of external bleeding of horses that weren't using lasix (these were non bleeders to begin with or they wouldn't have been racing in NY at the time) vs horses that were using lasix(they were more than likely bleeders before that). And with that sample size all I'll do is laugh.
