From Across The Pond

[TGJB]

Courtesy of Delmar Deb, a recent Racing Post series on supertrainers, here and elsewhere:
http://www.thorograph.com/hold/RPost_drugs_May05.pdf

[razzle]

TGJB,

My thanks to you for posting, and to Delmar Deb, again, for making available such a thorough article  on drugs in racing \'round the world.  Good show!

It\'s becoming quite laughable that everyone who has ANY access to accurate data(TG, Rags, Beyers, etc)and ANY ability to reason, is seeing and describing EXACTLY the same thing regardless of where they happen to be situated on the  globe. ( Oh, that\'s with the possible exception of US racing officials themselves... )  Oddly enough, most are recommending EXACTLY the same remedies(surveillance, screening protocols and penalties).  I doubt there\'s been this much agreement on anything internationally since the ban on nuclear testing.  

That reminds me, is nuclear testing still allowed in Maryland? at Pimlico?  They seem to be the horseracing equivalent to North Korea.  raz

[SoCalMan2]

Big Thanks to TGJB and DelMar Deb.  I haven\'t yet gotten all the way through, but it is great to see people very knowledgeable about the sport elsewhere in the world evaluating what we have to contend with.  Very interesting that they did not want to name Allday.  U.K. libel laws are a lot tougher than in the U.S..

[Boscar Obarra]

 This article has been posted here for 6 days and only two comments?  Maybe that says more than we\'d like to admit. Better to calculate how many angels can dance on the head of a lifetime top.

 Nothing in there that we didn\'t know 5-10 years ago, but I get the impression that the heat is on and MAYBE  something gets done.  You know we need the feds in here to enforce  tampering laws and put some folks away for LONG STRETCHS. Have no fear that this is draconian , we can milkshake \'em on admission so they can go the \'distance\'.

  Didn\'t know Biancone was tossed from Hong Kong, but then again I haven\'t been keeping up.