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Originally Posted by AndyC
Defending the US is a national issue. Deciding whether or not a horse should be allowed to use a certain drug is not.
If there is such an outcry for clean racing why wouldn't a track, a state or a circuit do it? Their toteboards would blow up with all the action.
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Regulating horse racing is also a national issue. States are in competition with each other. That's why the CHRB felt it couldn't disqualify Baffert's Santa Anita Derby winner. Baffert is too important to California racing.
National regulators have no interest in protecting the big players.
This isn't just true in horse racing by the way. OSHA, for instance, has to be a federal agency, because states would allow big employers to have unsafe factories to avoid losing a bunch of jobs to a state with lax regulators. It's called the "race to the bottom" or "lemons equilibrium".
