I don\'t know if there are any bloodhorse readers on here but in the July 9th issue Dutrow\'s assistant Rodriguez is quoted as saying Oflee Wild \"came out of the Pimlico Special with a slight hind end problem, When I got him in the morning, he was very weak behind.  Dr. Allday fixed him, and he came back and worked five furlongs in :58 3/5.\"

This is now the third horse I can remember in the last year with quotes from Dutrow or his assistants stating the a horse they recently aquired came in with hind end problems and Allday fixed them up.  These horses were Classic Endevor, Wild Desert, and now Oflee Wild.  I\'m sure there were more that we just have no public record on but I won\'t speculate.

We all know about Allday, my question is with him working for so many trainers, why has no one been able to figure out how he \"fixes\" all these horses hind ends so quickly?

Obviously the hind is the power source on a horse and any increase in hind end strength is going to make a horse faster (way too much attention is payed to the front end).

I guess there is too much money involved for someone to divulge this secret, but if everyone had it or it could be eliminated the playing field would be much more even.

I guess for now all we handicappers can do is look for any quotes prior to a big race where it\'s divulged that they \"fixed\" the hind end on some horse and go to town for a big score.

I\'m not that old, but can anyone remember a worse field in recent years.  Other than to see how Alex runs, is there anything exciting about this race?

I was just wondering if TGJB or anyone else would comment on what you do with a race like this.  In case no one saw it the winner Sir Ray ran half the race literally on the outer fence.  Do you treat it normally, or something totally different.  Was one of the strangest performances I\'ve ever seen.

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This list is off the website of the New York State Racing Commission.
NOTICE NUMBER 10
There are more drugs for 72 hours out.  This is just for 48


4043.2. Restricted use of drugs, medication and other substances.

(d) The following substances are permitted to be administered by any means until 48 hours before the start of a racing program:

(1) aminophylline or theophylline;

(2) arsenic solution (e.g., Fowlers Solution);

(3) aspirin or sodium thiosalicylate;

(4) chymotrypsin (e.g., Kymar);

(5) diuretics (e.g., furosemide [Lasix], except as otherwise provided pursuant to subdivision of this section, thiazide derivatives [e.g., Diuril], trichlormethiazide and dexamethazone [e.g., Naquazone bolets]);

(6) epinephrine (adrena-line);

(7) selenium/vitamin E (e.g., E-Se);

( griseofulvin (e.g., Fulvicin);

(9) guaiacol derivatives (e.g., Guaifenesin, Ripercol-L);

(10) hormones and steroids (e.g., testosterone, progesterone, estrogens, chorionic gonadatropin, glucocorticoids [e.g., Prednisolone, Depomedrol], and anabolic steroids [e.g., Equipoise]), except in conjunction with joint aspiration as restricted in subdivision (f) of this section;

(11) iodine injection (e.g., Hypodermin, Harvey\'s Injectible Blister);

(12) methenamine (e.g., Urotropin);

(13) the following nonsteroidal anti-inflammatory drugs (NSAID\'s): Phenylbutazone (e.g., Butazolidin), Flunixin (e.g., Banamine), meclofenamic acid (Arquel), naproxen (e.g., Naprosyn, Equiproxen);

(14) orgotein (e.g., Palosein);

(15) hydroxychloroquine sulfate (e.g., Rheaform);

(16) sarapin;

(17) sulfonamide drugs (e.g., Sulfa); and

(18) biologics (e.g., bacterins, antitoxins except tetanus antitoxin). They may not be administered within 48 hours of the start of a racing program. In this regard, substances ingested by a horse shall be deemed administered at the time of eating and drinking. It shall be part of the trainer\'s responsibility to prevent such ingestion within such 48 hours.

Hope you don\'t mind a new guy adding his voice, but for somepeople I don\'t think any explination will be good enough.  As has been pointed out before human being have gotten faster over time (faster 100M, under 4:00 miles).  So what must be causing this?  According to too many people it must be drugs.  Not evolution, training, nutrition or just people with better genetics.  At the same time not all people are faster (walk down the street and tell me how many 4:00 milers you see) but a small superior group of individuals can.  Why can this not be in horse racing?  Why can\'t Ghostzapper and Smarty Jones simply be faster than the rest of the population.  When will it be okay for a horse to be extremely fast.  I mean Smarty Jones was being treated for a broken skull...do you really think they were druging him to make faster?

Hey guys, long time reader, first time poster.  I was wondering if anyone saw Lost in the Fog run yesterday and your thoughts on him.  Think he should get a least a mile and a sixteenth on breeding if they can slow him down.  Anyone know what his debut number was?  Just one to watch, very visually impressive.


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