The Case for Using Lasix
Over at The Rail blog in the New York Times, Steve Zorn made a strong case for the use of Lasix. In the blog Steve states:
There have been many calls for the banning of raceday Lasix in Thoroughbred racing. The grandees of the sport, in the form of The Jockey Club, the Thoroughbred Owners and Breeders Association, etc. have decided that Lasix must go. Fortunately for the horses, the effort to bar Lasix in North America seems to have stalled.
While Steve takes a strong stance against drugs in his closing paragraph, he stands firm in his support of Lasix:
New York’s horsemen support getting tough on the drug cheaters. We’ve proposed to the State Racing Board that they tighten limits on painkillers, corticosteroids and clenbuterol, and that they make permanent the current arrangements under which Lasix is administered in specified dosages by veterinarians who work for the state or the racetrack, not the trainers. But we don’t support a Lasix ban that would inflict unnecessary pain on the horses that we love and that would serve no purpose other than the ego gratification of a few of the 1 percent.
Click here to read the full article at the New York Times.
