100x worse than the lasix issue

[elkurzhal]

http://online.wsj.com/article/AP10e360546e6442fcb4a0bf6599d8bd39.html

\"The investigation found 1,719 drug violations in 675 races between January 2010 and April 2012.\"

Testing found 0!??  What is the point of making anything illegal if we go 2 years and then find 1719 violations in the vet bills?

[TGJB]

Elk-- hence the need for publishing test results-- who was tested, for what, how, what result.

Again-- there were no Pennsylvania positives for TCO2 (\"milkshakes\", a misnomer, by the way) from 2000 (by which time they were widely known to be used) through 2009.

In an unrelated story, Pennsylvania announced in 2010 that were going to BEGIN TCO2 testing.

Also unrelated, the head RCI guy has issued a statement several times saying the industry\'s serious, highly funded testing shows nobody is drugging horses, they would be caught if they did. He didn\'t make an exception for Pennsylvania.

Here\'s one I heard recently from an unimpeachable source, haven\'t spoken about this here before:

The state racing board in a major racing state I will not name (not Pennsylvania) a couple of years ago wanted to check up on their lab. So, to test it, they intentionally loaded some samples that were sent for testing.

Zero positives. Nada.

Any assumptions made about the competence and integrity of the people running racetracks are a huge mistake. There are some organizations like the Jockey Club and Breeder\'s Cup that actually are trying, but there are limits to what they can do.

[TGJB]

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