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Originally Posted by biggestal99
what agreement can be reached. Trainers use LASIX because it enhances a horses performance and will stop most bleeding issues. kills two birds with one stone
can't see any trainer who uses LASIX to ban it.
only way is the feds.
Allan
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As long as you think every problem where the two sides won't sit down needs federal intervention, that's a good position on this one.
Obviously if most owners and trainers were anti-Lasix there wouldn't be a problem banning it. The idea that there is no way to compromise on the issue, that it must be either all or nothing, is silly.
How about changing the rule to only allow Level 4 bleeders to use Lasix? That's a compromise. Has it been discussed?
Of course the point of the thread was that the hidden agenda, despite the denials, was that since the coalition supporting the federal legislation was uniformly anti-Lasix and was having no success convincing any racing jurisdictions to ban it, they were taking the tack to get the Feds to do it, and it was going to cost plenty to implement the legislation, all paid by horseracing.
If you impose a solution that the majority of horseracing people don't want, you may find a bigger problems in the end.
