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Drug free racing attracts fans. No medication for these Japanese runners in the month before racing as #BreedersCup runners are being infused with all sorts of medication as we speak. Japanese runners are properly stabled, miles and miles of walking each day, breakdowns nearly

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A little Tesio breeding action at the Keeneland barns during the yearling showings.

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Horses evolved as social grazers of the plains, group survivalists moving and grazing together most all of the time, spatial awareness their specialty. During their 60-million-year evolution, horses came to require near-constant forage, friends and locomotion to maintain health

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Budweiser announced they are no longer abusively cutting the tails of of the baby Clydes after watching the video the People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals and I produced informing them it was cruel and abusive to cut tails off of babies. This goes for dogs too, no more

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Baltas busted doping every runner in his barn with PED beta 2 agonist higenamine and cardiac ischemia inhibitor paeonol.

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Happy Easter from the New York Thoroughbred farm where I Iive these days!

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Please make sure you leave all horses’ vibrissae intact, especially sales yearlings. The vibrissae are the long whiskers on the nose and over the eyes. Horses use their specialized and treasured vibrissae to identify objects they cannot easily visualize. Horses use vibrissae to

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The drugs must go.

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Practical Move dies at Santa Anita after suspected cardiac event. 📸: Benoit Photo

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The drugs must go. All the drugs. And with them, all the veterinarians and trainers who chronically rely on drugs to race.

Horse Racing Nation

@HR_Nation

4 years

Report: A flagged drug test from Kentucky Oaks day, which was announced Thursday by regulators, has been identified by the New York Times as coming from trainer Bob Baffert's star filly Gamine.

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In order to maintain pulmonary health, natural conditions need to be re-created in the stable. Horses prefer to graze together and move nearly constantly. Constant foraging, grazing, socializing and moving are essential for joint and bone health, hoof health, metabolic health and

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Despite domestication and selective breeding, today’s racehorses are no exception. Although horses are extremely adaptable, the last place a horse evolved to live is in a stall, alone, with limited space to move and forage about with others. The solution to manage bleeding and

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Mud splashing the belly can incite an unsensitized horse to buck. Thunder Snow does not like belly mud, no mud in Dubai. #ThunderSnow

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The mare knows best. Imprinting is an evolutionary phenomenon in precocial species, including the horse and certain waterbirds. The foal is born with a nearly fully intact and functioning nervous system needing a final tuning from the mare to function quickly. For horses,

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Report: Permitted Doping Injections need to end. The drugs must go. New York Thunder was injected twice before fatal injury.

Report: New York Thunder was injected 14 days before fatal injury

New York Thunder received a joint injection 14 days before his fatal injury last Saturday.

www.horseracingnation.com

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The care that establishes and enhances pulmonary health and endurance in horses is the same care that enriches stabled horses’ lives. Pulmonary care is providing the same near-constant movement that keeps racehorses’ musculoskeletal systems sound. It is the care that keeps horses

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@DRFMcGee @SwiftHitter @Ramsey_Farm Sudden exercise associated deaths suggest doping and/or training regimens that have exceeded the adaptability of the horse.

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2 years

Montana swing!

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That said, nearly every regulatory position I have had, with excellent results preventing breakdowns, I have lost because I would not let trainers run sore horses, or dope sore horses. This resulting in the HBPA successfully having me removed at most every track I worked.

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@RyanZinke This is an illegal media depiction of animal cruelty. Baby calf branding is unnecessarily abusive, a third degree burn that impairs growth and production and creates pain for 9 weeks while driving down consumer demand for beef.

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@DebonairHustler @WClark_TV After everyone concurred Forte was jogging sore, the vet made the judgement that horses who jog unsound are apt to break down if they are raced. Perhaps two legs are afflicted. Easy call, Todd should have scratched Forte yesterday after he jogged home lame after the breeze.

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@tine_theherd Surgery is inappropriate at this time. He is too fragile at this point, and the male hormones will aid in his recovery, for now. Please follow appropriate pre-surgical guidelines, and hold off on the neuter surgery until his nutritional status and metabolism are improved, please.

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@sidgustafson

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Walking throughout the day enhances and maintains lung health. Stabled horses need hours of walking each day, more walking than most are currently afforded. Veterinarians who manage racehorse health need to ensure that their patients are provided with adequate daily locomotion.

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@BloodHorse American trainers with ZERO breakdowns with over 400 starts 2020-22, there are many others with fewer starts who are also commended. NY Orlando Noda 618 Ray Handal 553 Jonathan Buckley 546 James S. Acquilano 481 James Ferraro 465 James Ryerson 459 Shug McGaughey 439 Cali Trainer

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@sidgustafson

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Remembering my namesake uncle, Luther Sidney Gustafson, Distinguished Service Cross, killed in Tunisia at age 22, citizen of #Bozeman , #Montana , graduate of @MontanaState ROTC From here, I visited the site where he lost his life defending liberty for all.

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Sid Gustafson DVM

@sidgustafson

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Soft sweet simple snaffle, no noseband, no tongue tie—soft eye, soft hands. All signs of superb mental soundness and physical fitness. Gosden style horsemanship.

Marty McGee

@MartyMcGee_

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Eight days out from the @BelmontStakes , the #KyDerby winner is usually a major focus of attention. Not this year. Here’s Country House going out for training at #ChurchillDowns this morning, all by his lonesome. More later at .

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@ThrimbyFarms She inappropriately provoked the cow’s innate behavior to protect her calf. Blaming the cow reflects a poor appreciation of animal behavior.

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“The tail supports and facilitates insect defense, comfort, welfare, reproduction, and disease prevention,” said equine veterinarian Sid Gustafson. “It is abusive and inhumane to deprive a horse of their tail. Tail amputation results in a lifetime of impaired balance moving at

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Horse Racing Nation “It's not just a matter of masking pain, it has the potential to mask other flags that would cause concern – and perhaps result in a different decision in terms of whether or not the horse should race."

Vet explains drug found in Kentucky Derby winner

A racing medication expert explains how betamethasone works in horses.

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@sidgustafson

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Veterinarian Vince Baker, #IamHorseracing featured DVM who heavily medicated and cortisoned Mongolian Groom's hocks prior to his @BreedersCup catastrophic breakdown, cited in another overmedication violation that took place Nov 16, two weeks after Mongolian's fatal injury.

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@sidgustafson

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Colic is often initiated by deprivations of locomotion. Digestion is locomotion dependent. For the horse's gut to move, the horse must move, abundantly. Stalled horses require miles of daily walking to maintain digestive health.

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@sidgustafson

5 months

Horses utilize the pace gait to swim.

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Christmas cookies make for a great (well deserved) snack. But make sure your horse stays in shape/ready to compete this spring using aquatic therapy. Swimming provides a full workout (in a heated room!) allowing your horse to stay fit even with a few extra cookies for the holiday

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@txdvm1 You have covered the subject of why veterinarians commit suicide at a rate beyond others, in detail. Thank you.

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The unfortunate fact that Medina Spirit was doped up close with intravenous Lasix prior to working is certainly in the differential diagnosis as Cause of Death. Trainers in America cannot work clean, let alone race clean.

Medina Spirit Necropsy: Cause of Death "Undetermined"

The cause of GI Kentucky Derby winner Medina Spirit's (Protonico) sudden death on Dec. 6 at Santa Anita remains undetermined, according to the findings of a necropsy on the horse. In a news release...

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Illegal drug use and doping continues on grand scale. HIWU Weekly Update: Peter Miller, Steve Asmussen, Christophe Clement Named With Pending Violations - Horse Racing News | Paulick Report

HIWU Weekly Update: Peter Miller, Steve Asmussen, Christophe Clement Named With Pending Violations

Ten new trainers have been added to the list of those with pending violations for controlled substances on the public disclosures section of the website for

paulickreport.com

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Sid Gustafson DVM

@sidgustafson

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Beautiful Clydesdale tails!

Racing TV

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❤ Nice one, Cyril ❤ 🐴 A wonderful sight at @ExeterRaces as six gorgeous Clydesdale horses gallop together. Bryony Frost rode the winner. The contest helped raise funds for @DevonAirAmb

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Why horses break down so often in America:

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I am lucky to be involved, working daily providing medical and surgical care to animals in dire need. The work is essential and the circumstances fine.

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@sidgustafson

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@Wonderfulf9688 @Rainmaker1973 Tail docking is brutally abusive and never favors the horse.

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@sidgustafson

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Remembering my namesake uncle, Luther Sidney Gustafson, Distinguished Service Cross, killed in Tunisia at age 22, citizen of #Bozeman , #Montana , graduate of @MontanaState ROTC From here, I visited the site where he lost his life defending liberty for all.

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Vibrissae Facial whiskers are vibrissae, sensory organs horses need, affording head and eye protection, spatial orientation, socialization, measuring feed and water, and so much more. Encourage @keenelandsales to institute a vibrissae clipping ban to stop harming the yearlings.

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Sid Gustafson DVM

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Harley grazing through the break. Breeders’ Cup Keeneland.

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@DRFGrening The drugs must go—the fetlock tapping, the prerace Lasix, the permitted NSAIDs all make horses vulnerable to break down catastrophically, putting jockeys’ lives at risk.

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@DRFGrening Breakdowns continue at highest level in America. The drugs must go.

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@sidgustafson

2 years

Best wishes for your Christmas Is all you get from me ‘Cause I ain’t no Santa Claus— Don’t own no Christmas tree. But, if wishes were health and money I’d fill your buckskin poke, Your doctor would go hungry And you never would be broke. CMRussell

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@Dessany2 @gburbidg @RyanZinke

Branding pain lingers, research finds | The Western Producer

KANSAS CITY, Mo. —The welfare of animals has improved in the last 50 years. “Since the 1960s and ’70s there has been real progress. We have seen real

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@raypaulick @roodandriddle EPO performance enhancing doping effects last 150 days after EPO clearance. The indictments signify EPO and other doping agents were repeatedly administered to MS by Servis evincing MS's stellar performances were enhanced by EPO. MS's stand down racing time should be 180 days

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@sidgustafson

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"Swift Dam pulls you in, drags you practically, sweeping you over the western landscape until you are ankle deep in Sid Gustafson's world. The writing flows through the reader's mind like water and entrenches the reader in story."

Swift Dam

It had been a long snowy winter and spring. The rivers were late rising, and the mountains held onto a pure white snow-cover. Rain fell upon the deep winter snow the day before the Flood of '64....

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EPO (erythropoietin) is a 'hit and run' doping agent. It builds up the red blood cells to enhance oxygen carrying capacity to enhance performance, and is then excreted while the effect remains. Lasix and other diuretics hasten its elimination so it is not present during testing.

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@sidgustafson

8 months

The drugs must go.

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Echo Zulu sustained a biaxial sesamoid bone fracture of the left-front fetlock during training this morning at Santa Anita. She has been stabilized in a kimzey splint and will undergo surgery Saturday morning, per trainer Steve Asmussen.

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Vibrissae are essential sensory structures, able to detect the speed, gait, and lead of horses racing in close proximity. Auguste Rodin’s full set of vibrissae helped him win easy.

Sid Gustafson DVM

@sidgustafson

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Vibrissae Facial whiskers are vibrissae, sensory organs horses need, affording head and eye protection, spatial orientation, socialization, measuring feed and water, and so much more. Encourage @keenelandsales to institute a vibrissae clipping ban to stop harming the yearlings.

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Crown Pride's horse-centered training protocols are outlined here. The Japanese have embraced "The Nature of the Horse" husbandry principles. Miles and miles of daily locomotion and socialization. Conditioning and Winning without Raceday Medication

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Appropriate training and stabling eliminates EIPH Study Found No Bleeding in Endurance-Trained Horses

Swimming: Study Found No Bleeding in Endurance-Trained Horses - Kentucky Equine Research

Because swimming is frequently used as a conditioning tool, researchers wondered if this particular exercise is associated with bleeding.

ker.com

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Henley’s Joy pre-race IV DMSO, a leg liniment, is a known doping agent able to hide EPO and other illicit drugs. It’s hygroscopic and diuretic qualities mask a variety of illicit drugs. The performance enhancing effect was several lengths, a dramatic form improvement, it seems.

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@sidgustafson

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All the drugs must go, the training drugs, the racing drugs, all the drugs. Santa Anita suffers its 11th horse death since Dec. 26

Santa Anita suffers its 11th horse death since Dec. 26

M C Hamster became the 11th horse to die at Santa Anita since the racing year began Dec. 26 after breaking down after a workout on the main dirt track.

www.latimes.com

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Sid Gustafson DVM

@sidgustafson

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It is simply not good form to go after horses with needles and drugs before they race. It is not fair. It is not right. It is not medically or morally appropriate. It has been demonstrated to be a practice that is harmful to horses.

New Model Needed for Race-Day Treatment, a Veterinarian Says

Attending veterinarians are paid in direct proportion to the drugs they administer, and herein lies a significant part of the medication problem.

archive.nytimes.com

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@sidgustafson

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“They were careless people. They smashed up things and creatures and then retreated back into their money or their vast carelessness or whatever it was that kept them together, and let other people clean up the mess they had made.” F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby

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@Joe_Nevills Criminal misconduct, violation of veterinary medical ethics, human endangerment. CE

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No more baby Clyde horse tail amputations.

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5 years

Aidan O’Brien discontinues blanket Lasix injections for his American runners. Mendelssohn taught him well. Magic Wand is @LasixFreeRacing in the Pegasus Turf. Channel Maker for Mott, likewise clean, along with Aerolithe for Takanori Kikuzawa from Japan—honorable horsemen.

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Much of the present racehorse fragility is due to incomplete and inadequate conditioning, followed by injury, followed by medication to mask the trouble to continue training. Doping with Lasix has weakened the breed, selecting for drug dependence to train and race at the expense

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Horses evolved in the open spaces of the northern hemisphere and require the cleanest, purest air to thrive and develop healthy lungs, limbs, and hearts. Stable air needs to be constantly refreshed to maintain pulmonary health. Ventilation is essential, and enclosed structures

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Levamisole is a widely acknowledged racehorse doping agent, an effective stimulant hop. Trainers, regulators, HBPA, and track veterinarians have long been made aware of its nefarious, inappropriate, and forbidden use on racehorses actively competing.

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To tell the age of any horse Inspect the lower jaw of course Six front teeth the tale will tell And every fear and doubt dispel Two middle 'nippers' you behold Before the colt is two weeks old Before eight weeks two more will come At eight months the corners cut the gum The

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Maggi was an abusive owner, threatening examining veterinarians with lawsuits so she could run sore class horses at the bottom. Had I not intervened, they likely would have broke the poor old boy down. The vet records of this encounter are at Finger Lakes, if she’d like to see. 3

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It is either goodbye Lasix, or goodbye racing. Clean racing will restore and enhance American racing, making the sport safer, as it has globally. Lasix horses break down 5x more often than horses racing where drugs are banned in the week before racing.

Goodbye Lasix, and Good Riddance

Beginning with the 2012 Breeders’ Cup, 2-year-olds will not be administered medication hours before they race for the first time in decades.

archive.nytimes.com

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To tell the age of any horse Inspect the lower jaw of course Six front teeth the tale will tell And every fear and doubt dispel Two middle 'nippers' you behold Before the colt is two weeks old Before eight weeks two more will come At eight months the corners cut the gum The

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7 months

Miles and miles of daily locomotion with the herd, key to racehorse health and prosperity!

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The army out in force #BC23

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“ @AAEPHorseDocs Veterinarians sworn to the care and protection of their patients routinely violated their oath in service of corrupt trainers and to line their own pockets.”

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@WClark_TV Hiding lameness is not Forté’s fortè

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2 years

@VGilker @kathrynpapp I am sorry to report that racetrack veterinarians who fail to cowtow to trainers and management are sometimes dismissed. Like jockeys, regulatory vets who fail to play the ‘the racehorse is not that lame’ game are often let go.

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Why horses need contact with other appropriate horses. "Social animals groom each other, a behavior known as allogrooming. Normal allogrooming is an affiliative interaction that strengthens social bonds and reduces tension and stress. 1/2

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A Veterinarian's Take: A Contemporary Approach to Equine Welfare

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@kathrynpapp @Troothsayer90 @KentuckyDerbyCJ @HR_Nation The likely reason Baker & Baffert did not list the Betavet joint injections, was because reporting would have required a vet listing of MS, a stand down time before working or racing that did not fit inside the Derby prep schedule. So they did not report, and now they are caught

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2 years

Horrid horsemanship by the outrider.

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A Veterinarian's Take: Breeders' Cup Keeneland 2022 American trainers continue to fail the Horse with intense, indiscriminate prerace pharmaceuticals that exceed the adaptability of the thoroughbred, resulting in continued breakdowns and sudden deaths.

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Bob Baffert Grins and Bears Another Racehorse Doping Scandal

Bob Baffert Grins and Bears Another Horse Racing Scandal

America's foremost thoroughbred racing trainer finds himself immersed in the two modern scourges of horse racing: Injuries and drugs.

www.si.com

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@NagleMary @kathrynpapp @Comm27857443Man @Troothsayer90 @IncJazzmen @scanman614 @RacingRachelM Betamethasone fatally broke down Mongolian Groom by suppressing the inflammatory cascade and masking joint pain. As documented and published by the @caCHRB , Dr Baker injected his hock joints multiple times leading up to the @BreedersCup Classic breakdown.

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Slowly but surely HIWU is dismantling the prerace drugging culture.

BloodHorse

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Wong Provisionally Suspended by the HIWU for Metformin @BH_MRollins

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@SamG4545 @DRFGrening They knew. In America they are allowed to drug sore horses to race.

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2 years

@TomAmossRacing This suggests that you continue to be too aggressive with medication, using drugs to cover infirmity at your horse's expense. No drugs for weeks out is the European norm, please try that. At the Breeders' Cup, the Euros trained and won without drugs.

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5 years

Wild horses can be humanely gathered horseback over a two week acclimation period wherein the horse and rider merge with and subsequently guide the herd, keeping the family units intact, uninjured & untroubled—an ethical gathering method if gathering becomes ethically necessary.

Blue Equus 💫🌎🌲🐾 🐝🐴🌱😷🇺🇦🌻🇵🇸

@Blueequus775

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WHFF Twin Peaks roundup 2010 “After the Capture” 1734 captured. 331 dead: 157 in long term holding, 144 in short term - from strangles, colic, fractured necks, a 3 year old with no teeth... Sold 141 - at least 88 to kill buyer Tom Davis #StopTheRoundups

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5 years

12th horse euthanized at Saratoga Race Course this season. The drugs must go.

Horse euthanized at Saratoga Race Course

SARATOGA SPRINGS, N. Y. (WRGB) - Another horse has died at the Saratoga Race Course. According to the New York State Gaming Commission, a horse named Go Big Or Go Home pulled up and didn't finish a...

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@sidgustafson

8 months

@txdvm1 Horses evolved to forage. A horse should never be without a bite of appropriate forage, otherwise stereotypies develop. Grain is optional to sustain increased energy demands for performance horses. The Tao of Horse: foraging and digestion

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Sid Gustafson DVM

@sidgustafson

7 months

109 prerace joint injections for #BreedersCup runners. Two breakdowns last year, how many this year with all the injected runners?

🐎 BlackShot

@SuperGoals

7 months

Updated: I missed several horses w my prior data post. Same data source as prior *** 109 IA injections from 10.01-10.21 *** Per the data, Defunded 10.02 and Muth 10.09 both got an IA injection shortly after their last race, sounds like a real “horseman”

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Sid Gustafson DVM

@sidgustafson

8 months

Hem: You go to the races? Plimpton: Yes, occasionally. Hem: Then you read the Racing Form…there you have the true art of fiction.

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Sid Gustafson DVM

@sidgustafson

3 years

With Lasix now prohibited, illicit drugs linger. No more masking or dilution.

BloodHorse

@BloodHorse

3 years

ALERT: Medina Spirit Tests Positive for Betamethasone @BH_CCrosby #TC2021

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Sid Gustafson DVM

@sidgustafson

11 months

@jayprivman 15 to 20 trainers tapping joints and working their horses shortly afterwards reflects how drug-inundated the game is with unethical horseman who place greed above equine welfare. These practices break horses down, as do all the other ancillary drugs trainers utilize to enhance

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Sid Gustafson DVM

@sidgustafson

1 year

@KatyMowat In addition to daily intensive attention to appropriate natural herd behavioral development, it is the miles and miles of daily walking, grazing, and socializing for their stabled runners that conditions both mind and body into winning form. Avoidance of

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Sid Gustafson DVM

@sidgustafson

4 years

The drugs must go, all the drugs must go, the training drugs, the permitted prerace drugs, the vets who push the drugs...

KCAL News

@kcalnews

4 years

ANOTHER HORSE DEATH: Peek It Up, a 3-year-old filly, has been euthanized after going down during Saturday night's last race at Los Alamitos.

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Sid Gustafson DVM

@sidgustafson

7 months

Prerace medication of #BreedersCup American entries appears intense. Many are currently vet listed for joint injections. Last year, two intensely-medicated American runners did not finish. Keeneland 2022 Failing the Horse

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Sid Gustafson DVM

@sidgustafson

4 years

Goodbye Lasix Board: No Lasix For California 2-Year-Olds This Year

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Sid Gustafson DVM

@sidgustafson

2 years

@ABC @Doxy6661 Australia regulated guns, and the mass shootings ended. A model is present to end the killings.

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Sid Gustafson DVM

@sidgustafson

1 year

The drugs must go.

David Grening

@DRFGrening

1 year

Trainer Mertkan Kantarmaci confirms that Reed Kan had to be euthanized due to injuries suffered in BEL opener. Waiting for update on Silvera, who, according to NYRA, was taken to local hospital for evaluation.

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Sid Gustafson DVM

@sidgustafson

2 years

Keeneland Equine Welfare Concerns

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@sidgustafson

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