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Bruce Weary DC wrote:
> This is why it is so important to proceed cautiously when campaigning 
> for the approval of the use of certain drugs in our endurance horses, 
> in order to let them compete when they are not really healthy enough 
> to withstand the rigors of competition. Though more studies need to be 
> done to study the relationship between the increased incidence of 
> fracture and the use of PPI's, it is reasonable to at least assume 
> that since horses are mammals, they may experience a similar 
> disruption of their calcium absorption/bone metabolism, placing them 
> at increased risk as well.
While we have no numbers and probably never will in endurance horses -
the basic biochemistry in manuals (of which horses and humans are
examples ) is the same. The bottom line I think is a sensible drug
policy - no therapeutic levels of drugs of any sort on the day of an
endurance ride. I don't care if it comes from a pill out of a box, a
shot or some concoction of aunt Norma Jean's - if they test and it is
therapeutic levels the rider, horse and owner are suspended from AERC
rides for one year. Again this is therapeutic levels - not the
ridiculously trace levels some think need to be enforced.

Let's keep drugs - all drugs out of the sport. However, lets not take
our eye off the ball and worry about 10 plus half lives of substances.

Truman


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“The surest way to corrupt a youth is to instruct him to hold in higher
esteem those who think alike than those who think differently.”
Friedrich Nietzsche



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