Animal Kingdom’s Triumph Is Also a Victory for Horse Racing - NYTimes.com
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/05/09/sp...cing.html?_r=2
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So this colt is on to the Preakness Stakes, where his trainer, Graham Motion, and Barry Irwin, the chief executive of Team Valor International, can continue to demonstrate how solid horsemanship rather than black bag veterinarian work can succeed at horse racing’s highest level. This is especially important now that Representative Edward Whitfield, Republican of Kentucky, and Senator Tom Udall, Democrat of New Mexico, introduced legislation last week to regulate the use of performance-enhancing drugs and medications in horse racing.
After 25 years of using multiple trainers, Irwin says he was exasperated by the lack of truth telling in the profession.
“I don’t want to have 18 trainers,” he said. “I don’t want to hear stories from 17 trainers every day. Unless you’re there and you have one guy on your team that’s on your side, you’re not going to get the truth. And I reached the point where I was fed up with it. I also wanted to have my horses trained off-site from the racetrack, because racetrack life for a horse isn’t any good.
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