This is merely for my own interest.....i am curious as to whom else has dealt with this within the racing proffesion....i am a physiotherapist on some of the top stake runners in the country and can only shake my head at the state of those animals whose bodies are used and abused like a lab rat......I have witnessed first hand the long term detrimental effects on these animals, regardless of what people claim.....we have top runners who are running on benzoylecgonine(a metabolite of cocaine) and to reduce anxiety are given lidocaine (a local anastethic)......these animals have not only the ability but the desire to run drug free....it saddens me to see capitalism in full effect at the cost of these animals health.......
i am curious as to other's thoughts on this issue....
