No Place in the Game
Consider: There are no allowed raceday medications in Dubai, so all 83 starters in the Dubai World Cup ran without the anti-bleeding drug Lasix, including 15 American horses who all raced on the powerful diuretic in the US. Of those 15, three won (Curlin!) and two more finished in the money. “Lasix is a fraud,” Bill Finley declares, and these results prove it. The time has come for American racing to end its dependence:
There is strong evidence that it is detrimental to the long-term well-being of the horse and some of the world’s most respected scientists say it can mask other drugs. Its pervasive use adds to racing’s image as an outlaw sport where drug use is rampant. Besides Canada, no other country in the world allows it. Yet, its usage here is out of control and no one seems to want to do anything about it. That needs to change.
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