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I agree. PED's in horse racing have been more widespread and have been around longer than most would care to admit.
That said, the world has moved on.
Mainstream sports: The Olympics, NCAA Track and Field, MLB, NFL, the NBA, etc. have moved on too. They haven't managed to eliminate PED's entirely from their sports but (at the very least) they are making a serious effort towards that goal and are doing it in a way that the general public can very clearly see.
By way of comparison racing refuses to move on. For whatever reason, racing's decision makers (leadership at horsemen's alphabet groups and track management) resist any and all efforts at change - ANY change.
As a result, racing has fallen so woefully far behind the times that it is no longer a mainstream sport.
If we ever want the public to accept racing as a mainstream sport again, at some point, we are going to have to embrace change and actually make a significant effort to eliminate PEDs from our sport.
Anything less than that will simply result in racing continuing its own (self made) downward spiral in terms of total customer spend on the product.
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