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The Rail: Debate Swirls Around Race-Day Medication
The New York State Racing and Wagering Board received an overwhelming response to its call for public comment as it weighs whether to pursue a ban on race-day medication. The…
May 16 2012, 5:26am | Visit source ›
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Clarifying some terms, such as ‘bleeder’; and Drape quote
There’s so much confusion about exercise-induced pulmonary hemorrhage (EIPH) in articles, blogs, and SM today that I want to clarify…
May 12 2012, 9:13am | Visit source ›
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A look at EIPH history and its prevalence in Hong Kong
The Hong Kong Jockey Club (HKJC) has strict testing requirements in place for exercise-induced pulmonary hemorrhage (EIPH) in imports, but…
May 11 2012, 11:43pm | Visit source ›
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Banning Lasix is wrong for the horses
I respectfully submit that those pursuing the elimination of race day Lasix® (Salix®; furosemide) present fallacious arguments that not only cause diversion from vital issues, but also promote a position…
May 7 2012, 6:44am | Visit source ›
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Squires: Long History of Drug Use in the Derby
By all accounts, the 90th Kentucky Derby in 1964 was the first to include a competitor running on the drug furosemide, then known as Lasix. The initial dose was given…
May 6 2012, 12:09pm | Visit source ›
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Today could be an important day for U.S. racing. Joe Drape and company published the second part of the New…
April 30 2012, 6:27am | Visit source ›
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The Rail: New Model Needed for Race-Day Treatment, a Veterinarian Says
The white horse emerged late last year representing promise to restore a limping game; a new age of clean racing, race-day-medication-free racing; but the white horse hung coming down the…
April 29 2012, 7:39am | Visit source ›
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From TTimes TODAY: Salix talk on Twitter puts me to sleep
Horsemen and racing veterinarians, however, will tell you, me, Crist, and Drape that Salix, more than any of the other…
April 25 2012, 11:18am | Visit source ›
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Crist: Furosemide outcry rings hollow
In the meantime, here’s a suggestion for them: If they really believe that furosemide is bad for horses and racing, why don’t they just stop racing their horses on it?…
April 20 2012, 1:15pm | Visit source ›
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Lasix: The Root of All Evil or the Scapegoat of Horse Racing
Earlier this week the Kentucky Horse Racing Commission voted on phasing out the use of Lasix in racing. The vote ended in a tie (7-7) and therefore was not passed.…
April 19 2012, 10:11am | Visit source ›
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KHRC committee okays Lasix phase-out plan in 4-1 vote
The Kentucky Horse Racing Commission's Raceday Medication Committee, meeting Monday afternoon just before the full KHRC votes on the matter,…
April 16 2012, 10:47am | Visit source ›
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Violette jumps into Kentucky debate, charges intimidation, strong-arm tactics
Rick Violette, president of the New York Thoroughbred Horsemen’s Association, has jumped into the Kentucky debate over whether or not…
April 16 2012, 7:57am | Visit source ›
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Rees: Want to see a bloody corpse? Kentucky racing without race-day Lasix
I don’t know a more polite way to say this but: IS THE LEADERSHIP OF THE KENTUCKY HORSE RACING COMMISSION THAT WANTS TO BAN RACE-DAY BLEEDER MEDICATION (in such a…
April 16 2012, 6:59am | Visit source ›
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The Lasix Debate: Will Kentucky ban race-day Lasix administration?
Shortly after high noon today the Raceday Medication Committee of the Kentucky Horse Racing Commission will vote on a proposal…
April 16 2012, 6:57am | Visit source ›
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The Jockey Club's inherent power to regulate
Attorney and Thoroughbred breeder Amanda Simmons has an interesting legal take on how The Jockey Club can go farther than…
April 10 2012, 10:53am | Visit source ›
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USTA Endorses the Use of Salix (Lasix); What About the Real Problem?
At the USTA Board of Directors meeting on Monday, the regulatory committee adopted the USTA's position on the use of…
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Kling: Snatching defeat from the jaws of victory
Richardson danced around the real problem. Thoroughbred horsemen - mostly trainers, and many racetrack operators, are vehemently opposed to a ban on raceday lasix. The tracks are faced with a…
March 2 2012, 12:04pm | Visit source ›
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Strawbridge, Weber resign TOBA membership in protest over Graded Stakes medication ban delay
Two days ago Thoroughbred Daily News columnist and European-based bloodstock adviser Bill Oppenheim called the Thoroughbred Owners and Breeders Association’s…
March 2 2012, 10:47am | Visit source ›
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TVG Racing Roundtable On Drugs In Racing
This is a pretty long video, but anyone who has an opinion of drugs in horse racing or has more…
February 5 2012, 8:03am | Visit source ›
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Paulick joins TVG Roundtable for hard look at racing meds
In this week’s edition of Racing Roundtable, host Todd Schrupp talks with panelists including Hall of Fame trainer Jack Van…
February 5 2012, 6:00am | Visit source ›
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Winning horse at Aqueduct got Lasix by mistake
A horse who was mistakenly given a shot of the anti-bleeding medication Lasix won a race at Aqueduct last week unbeknownst to the betting public. Summer Sunset won the second…
January 5 2012, 2:40pm | Visit source ›
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Hopeless or Hopeful? Lasix and Saratoga’s Premier Race for 2-year-olds
Last week the American Graded Stakes Committee announced its 2012 graded stakes races. Among the noteworthy changes was the downgrading…
December 9 2011, 6:30am | Visit source ›
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Does Thoroughbred horse racing have a drug problem?
Does Thoroughbred horse racing have a drug problem? It depends on whom you ask. In Saratoga in August, Ed Martin of the Association of Racing Commissioners International declared unequivocally that…
December 7 2011, 8:59am | Visit source ›
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On Friday, he was granted a stay of the 10-year-suspension handed to him by the New York State Racing and…
November 21 2011, 6:30am | Visit source ›
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Lasix: Demystifying the drug, methods of training without it
Soon after leaving the service in the mid-1940s, Mel Stute went to work as a groom for trainer Yorkie McLeod at the old Tanforan Racetrack near San Francisco. McLeod had…
November 17 2011, 5:02pm | Visit source ›
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Compromise nowhere to be found in medication debate
It is racing’s version of the Hatfields and McCoys, the Tea Party against the Occupiers, Right to Lifers vs. Pro…
November 15 2011, 9:16am | Visit source ›
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Lasix battle lines drawn between TOBA, horsemen
By Matt Hegarty The Thoroughbred Owners and Breeders Association is lining up allies and pressing its effort to get state racing commissions to ban the race-day use of the anti-bleeding…
September 22 2011, 12:11pm | Visit source ›
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Dick Powell on the Lasix debate: But rather than ban it, I think we should mandate it. Nearly all Thoroughbred…
September 20 2011, 6:30am | Visit source ›
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When Racing Doesn't Get Hands Around Medication
For years racing has been talking about the problem of illegal medication and the drug cheats. While racing has attempted…
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