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Location: The best kept secret in TX | OregonBR - 2017-01-18 12:01 PM As far as drug testing at D races and rodeos go, it's been tried and failed. An association was formed in the south years ago with the noble intent to drug test. They didn't last very long. It would be logistically impossible because of the lack of security at shows, length of time the event covers and the problem with expense that nobody wants to cover. As far as the "animal rights" people go. Years ago (probably 20) some friends of mine went to run at the Cow Palace in SF, CA. While they were away from their rig some real intelligent people pulled the pin that kept the stinger in the receiver. They got back to the trailer and loaded up drove out on the street and the trailer and stinger came out of the receiver. There are lots of hills in SF. The trailer and horses rolled back down the hill into and through a fire station and stopped against the back wall of the fire station. On the other side of the wall was a shear drop off. The police told them the animal rights people were known to do just this thing. Idiots.
WOW! 
What type of injuries did the horses have? |
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Location: Peg-Leg Julia Grimm | The horses were fine. But it could have turned out way different. |
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| IRunOnFaith - 2017-01-18 9:00 AM
1DSoon - 2017-01-18 8:57 AM mreklaw - 2017-01-18 9:45 AM iloveequine40 - 2017-01-18 6:40 AM Was a "fly on the wall" for a couple years helping produce races and have heard many conversations about drug use between top futurity trainers, nfr qualifiers, local 1D superstars, big-time brokers and greatly lost respect for so many. Yes it happens way more than people think. Even NFR qualifiers that everyone loves and puts on pedestals.
Lol no thanks I'm not mentioning names. I only overheard them talk about what they used never saw them in the act. It's not for me to smear someone by name. You can guess it to be whoever you want. Call it heresay whatever but I don't see this thread getting deleted over my statement as I didn't mention names. |
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| IRunOnFaith - 2017-01-18 9:00 AM
1DSoon - 2017-01-18 8:57 AM mreklaw - 2017-01-18 9:45 AM iloveequine40 - 2017-01-18 6:40 AM Was a "fly on the wall" for a couple years helping produce races and have heard many conversations about drug use between top futurity trainers, nfr qualifiers, local 1D superstars, big-time brokers and greatly lost respect for so many. Yes it happens way more than people think. Even NFR qualifiers that everyone loves and puts on pedestals.
Uh news flash every "story" relayed on here is heresay. |
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Shark is another animal rights group like PETA. |
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Location: Arkansas | rpreast - 2017-01-17 5:08 PM
I've never paid much attention, but now I'll have to ask about it more this weekend. At the cuttings there will sometimes be the 'drug lady' (omg what a jerk I am, I can't remember her name) walking around with a cup on a stick. It's just a known fact that she will randomly select horses to be tested after they show. Every contestant pays a drug fee in their entry's. Same horse entered in 2 classes pays the drug fee twice. There have been a few people to be suspended for drugged horses just at the local shows.
Frank Merrill wrote his column in QT Horse News a month or so ago on the need for the horse industry to police themselves on drug use and animal welfare before someone else (government or animal rights groups) steps in. It was very timely and interesting.
I don't know what the answer is; people will do anything for that almighty dollar. . . .
Edited by Chandler's Mom 2017-01-19 12:14 AM
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Location: Tulsa, Ok | Having spent a lifetime around the track, including being married to a trainer, I can guarantee that the people who truly need to be caught by a drug test are extremely unlikely to every be caught and face consequences. The true druggies know exactly what drug panels are currently being used, what they are capable of testing for and they are 99.9% of the time one step ahead of the process. And if by some fluke they are caught they have an attorney on retainer who will file injunctions until hell freezes over and they eventually get their money.
While drug testing is great in theory, in reality it is mostly a waste of time, effort and money.
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