JC / Railbird

Breaking Through

“If the initial reports prove to be true,” writes Andrew Beyer, “the cosmopolitan Biancone could be to horse racing what Floyd Landis, the disgraced Tour de France winner, is to professional cycling: the symbol of the sport’s cancerous drug problem.” Perhaps the one good thing that might come out of this is that with a scandal on that scale we’ll get the vigorous debate about drugs and supplements that the sport sorely needs, as painful as that would be for all, and new regulations and penalties to seriously curb the problem.