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Originally Posted by HUSKER55
I am having one of those days so be kind.
what is an "enhanced 72 hour security race"
Thanks
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Since 2012 a number of high profile races have started to employ extra security before the actual race.
For the 2012 & 2013 Breeders Cups and again this year every horse running in a Breeders Cup race has to go through extra Out of Competition drug testing and the have 24 hr a day surveillance for the last 72 hrs leading up to the race.
So right now every horse in a Breeders Cup race has a security guard following them non stop until they race. They sit outside their stall, they walk with them where ever they go. If a vet goes in to give medication it gets recorded and the vet has to give them the syringe so that they can test what medicine was given. There is a cutoff time for vets to work on the horses and on race day the only treatment that is allowed is Lasix given by a State appointed vet.
The Breeders Cup employees a whole team of equine security guards for these 4 days and it's a 1000% more strict than normal race day where there is only a sign on a horses stall saying in to race.
There have been 50 races run under this type of security (the 1st was the Belmont won by Union Rags) and I have noticed that some horses and some specific trainers horses performances in these races are not near as good as they are in normal races.
Many horses/trainers horses run very similar speed figures in these type of races to the ones that they ran in non security races, but there are several who's speed figures are much lower during these races than they are in normal races without the security.
To me this is a huge handicapping angle.
