why are the NHRA afraid to ban anabolic steriods?

Well discussed on other threads but I have to ask why

under pressure from breeders ?

Under pressure from owners?

Under pressure from bloodstock agents ?

Whats the truth?

Or happy to say we live in 3rd world africa and we dnt care cos our punting
money comes from the uneducated masses who dnt know anything

The NHRA should be controlled by a govt organisation and should be totally independant,The fact that the turfclubs pay the NHRA costs and the turfclubs are controlled by the biggest owners in the country,we should be very concerned as to that every decision made in racing is the correct one.The NHRA should be a totally independant body with no influence from any owner,trainer,jockey,etc to ensure that the industry is clean.We have enough corruption in our country without our racing being deemed corrupt as it often is.Give the control over to another body that funds it without needing the funds from the raceclubs to make it works,and we should then be seen to be a proper policeman in racing.

Is Racing a sport? If it is then it must be one of a few that allows this - Perhaps Gov should step in with the NSPCA on the grounds that giving animals steroids for non-health reasons is cruelty.

ask phumelela if they think is the sport. the dividends and screw local racing and owners is there sport

Whitehouse - trouble is that taking NHRA away from the clubs and handing it over to the government to control would be like taking away guarding the sheep pen from the fox and handing the job to the wolf. Or, like the old children's song, "I know an old lady that swallowed a fly":

She swallowed the dog to catch the cat,
Went the whole hog and swallowed a dog!
She swallowed the cat to catch the spider,
That wriggled and wiggled and tickled inside er.
She swallowed the spider to catch the fly,
I don't know why she swallowed a fly,
Perhaps she'll die.

And so on and so on ....

I know an ol lady that swallowed a horse...
she's dead, of course....Or should that be off course

Pirhobeta Wrote:

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> I know an ol lady that swallowed a horse...
> she's dead, of course....Or should that be off
> course

LOL! I forgot that part of the song ...

......not that easy to put the Genie back in the bottle.....

.....but seriously they will have to cave....the open ground swell must be far stronger than the clandestine few that are taking full advantage of the NHRA lack of action.....:

Clandestine few! My eye! The vets are administering flat out, makes them money(td)

When someone is charged,accepts guilt,pays a huge fine then it can be safely assumed that this is an accepted practice by that person`s immoral standards.Note how ,after one of the top trainer`s horses was positively tested a couple of months before the KZN
season,all the top horses in that stable suddenly could not perform.It took atleast 3 months for these horses to return to some of the potential that they had shown.Some how or other the NHRA must be forced to do the right thing and ban any form of performance enhancing steroids immediately and in so doing protect the well-being of the horse(which every horse lover preaches)

?......why would vets be required to administer steroids......can't Joe public work with a needle and a drip.....
what is the difference spiking B12 or drip feeding electrolites......surely if no records are required for steriod administration...... any oke practicing pin cushion tactics can shoot it up.......no wonder it is so difficult to sell the non steriodal alternatives when one can get away with the real bombs.....maybe the rantings of a trainer that used to post here are true in that the NHRA are directly implicated......fines are only divied out to those not using their vet and services......:

james i have see my self trainers give my horse steroids. is no all ways the vet. this is my shame but 20 year ago this is the normal and harry want every advantage he can have. i never get the steroids bill but suddenly thing like blankets get very expensive