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Originally Posted by dilanesp
There was a point, at least in California, where Lasix was definitely being used as an anti-bleeding medication. You had to get your horse scoped, and yes, first time Lasix after a bad start could result in the horse waking up.
I have NEVER contended that Lasix can't work as a bleeding treatment. It obviously could, and did.
But at some point, Lasix's performance enhancing capabilities (and masking capabilities) became clear enough that it became important to horsemen to administer the drug to horses who had never established themselves as bleeders. And what did they do? They got the rules changed so that they could dope their horses.
If you are going to have legal Lasix as a bleeding treatment, all you have to do is treat it the same way WADA treats potentially performance enhancing health treatments in other sports. You get to take it, but the treatment is disclosed to and handled under the protocol dictated by the drug-testing agency, with their own doctors involved.
The fact that this was unacceptable to horsemen and they insisted on just putting almost every horse on it shows the bleeding rationale is, at this point, complete BS.
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it wasn’t performance enhancing capabilities that got trainers/owners to start using it. It was horses that were bleeding but bleeding too deeply to detect with a scope. And then that fostered into using it as a precautionary measure. The general public just took it to a place for all intents and purposes it’s not. If you think dropping a horses weight that minuscule amount, considering the daily fluctuations in horses weight already, is going to somehow enhance their performance I have a bridge I want to sell you. Think about this. You go to the races and see some of these skinny ass horses in the paddock obviously 200 lbs lighter than they should be. If you think 20lbs is magic for horses why the hell aren’t these 200 lb too light horses not kicking the shit out of everybody lol.
