US Jockey Club seeks NY ban on raceday furosemide

The USA Jockey Club wants people to throw their back upwardly behind efforts to bound the role of the drug, furosemide,  in New York racing.

The regulators of horseracing inward New York are requesting input in addition to responses from the manufacture in addition to Earth at large to help them inward world hearings in addition to deliberations concerning the role of the drug inward racehorses.

The Jockey Club is urging breeders, owners, trainers in addition to other interested parties to write to New York racing regulators to urge them to back upwardly its position of banning Salix treatments to horses on the twenty-four hr stream of a race.

The Jockey Club said, inward recent months, racing regulators inward the USA had begun to consider changes to medication rules regarding the role of furosemide, marketed nether the  names Salix in addition to Lasix, on the twenty-four hr stream of a race.

Currently inward the US, 95 per cent of all horses have the drug 4 hours earlier the race.

“This medication non alone causes horses to lose upwardly to 25 pounds of H2O weight, but it has likewise been proved to significantly elevate racing performance,” the Jockey Club says.

“Momentum is starting to construct inward back upwardly of the long-held seat of the USA Jockey Club that horses should last allowed to compete alone when gratis from the influence of medications inward their system.”

The regulators of horseracing inward New York are requesting input in addition to responses from the manufacture in addition to Earth at large to help inward them inward world hearings in addition to deliberations concerning the role of the drug  in racehorses.

“We are asking thoroughbred owners, breeders in addition to enthusiasts from only about the globe to help us past times writing letters to the New York State Racing in addition to Wagering Board inward back upwardly of banning Salix treatments to horses on the twenty-four hr stream of a race.”

Furosemide is a diuretic. It is used to both preclude in addition to care for exercise-induced pulmonary hemorrhage (EIPH), in addition to to optimize race functioning past times weight loss. Its role for horses on race twenty-four hr stream is banned everywhere but North America.

Some pulmonary haemorrhage occurs naturally inward fourscore per cent of thoroughbred racehorses. It is meaning inward almost ix per cent in addition to makes almost 1 per cent or two per cent unable to race. Lasix mitigates all levels of EIPH. For horses amongst meaning EIPH, it is a proven, safe, inexpensive, in addition to easily monitored treatment.

Many horsemen administer the drug to all their horses earlier whatever exertion. The Jockey Club says at that spot is no known scientific information establishing the extent to which the preventative role of the drug mightiness comport upon the prognosis of horses that sense a meaning (grade three or 4) EIPH.

The drug gives racehorses a major payoff past times reducing weight on average xvi pounds, it says. The get-go fourth dimension a Equus caballus races on the drug its functioning significantly improves.

Owners who oppose the drug nevertheless role it, rather than forcing their horses to send a xvi pound weight disadvantage.

Some owners in addition to breeders oppose race-day role of furosemide.

Heredity is a element inward EIPH, the Jockey Club says. The drug keeps horses from beingness culled from the breeding pool.

The Jockey Club says the marketability of New York horses is of import in addition to at that spot is worry that American horses are losing their standing in addition to value inward the international market.

“Some members of Earth including fans, bettors, in addition to beast rights advocates are distressed past times the fact that virtually every Equus caballus is stuck amongst a needle inward the cervix 4 hours earlier its race. Lasix is the alone drug meant to comport upon functioning (EIPH). It is permitted on race day,” it says.

“Many trainers in addition to veterinarians really strongly favor Lasix. Their seat is that it does effectively in addition to humanely care for a Equus caballus amongst EIPH; that rubber role mightiness meliorate the prognosis of a Equus caballus that develops a meaning EIPH problem; in addition to that it is expert for the possessor in addition to the bettor. Many of those who favor raceday Lasix are non concerned amongst the breeding value of the horses but rather amongst income derived from racing the horses.”

 

The Jockey Club asks that submittors gear upwardly an private reply printed on the official letterhead of their farm or equine business. Potential areas for consideration inward responses include the following:

• Are racing performances inward the U.S.A. earned nether the influence of Salix indicative of a horse’s truthful potential?
• Does Salix convey a long-term resultant on the wellness of the breed?
• Has Salix changed the attitudes of international buyers toward U.S.A. horses?
• Have international owners in addition to breeders had to brand whatever adjustments inward their decision-making processes to concern human relationship for the role of Salix during the racing careers of U.S. horses?
• With all international racing succeeding in addition to thriving without Salix on the twenty-four hr stream of a race, does the U.S.A. policy that allows Salix to last given to horses on the twenty-four hr stream of a race diminish the importance of U.S.A. racing in addition to horses inward other ways?

All letters are due at the New York State Racing in addition to Wagering Board past times v p.m. EST, May 14, 2012. 
Please send your missive of the alphabet electronically to: John.googas@racing.ny.gov and a re-create to inquiries@jockeyclub.com

 

 

 

 

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