WEDNESDAY DECEMBER 11th RACING POST 2013. JULIAN MUSCAT "TESTING RESOUCES NEED A BIG INJECTION. IT STILL BEGGARS BELIEF THAT A VET SHOULD RECOMMEND SUNGATE. "

 

 

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NELSON MANDELA

• Born: 18 July 1918
• Died: 5 December 2013 (age 95)
• Birthplace: Umtata, Transkei
• Best known as:

The first black president of South Africa

             http://www.who2.com/bio/nelson-mandela 

Obama, world leaders praise 'giant of history' at Mandela memorial

By Marie-Louise Gumuchian, CNN

December 10, 2013 -- Updated 1900 GMT (0300 HKT)
 

Johannesburg (CNN) -- They gathered in the tens of thousands -- presidents, prime ministers, royals, celebrities and ordinary South Africans -- all united to say farewell to a man hailed as a global symbol of reconciliation.

In what has been billed as one of the largest gatherings of global leaders in recent history, representatives from around the world joined street sweepers, actors and religious figures to pay tribute to Nelson Mandela. 

http://edition.cnn.com/2013/12/10/world/africa/nelson-mandela-memorial/

  

JULIAN MUSCAT Reports:

"Testing resources need a big injection. "

"It still beggars belief that a vet should recommend Sungate" .

"SOME pretty sober reflections arise from the conclusion to the summer scandals involving anabolic steroids.

 

"For years we have been encouraged to believe Britain has the least tolerant,  best-policed anti-drugs policy in the world. We must now acknowledge that only being the least tolerant is true.

 

"The Gerard Butler case prompted an admission that nine other Newmarket  trainers had used Sungate under veterinary supervision, yet none could be brought to book. The BHA deemed  its regulations were insufficiently robust to withstand legal challenge; the rules have since been rewritten.

 

"That alone is startling enough, the saving grace being anabolic steroid use has been so rare in Britain that the robustness of the regulations has not been tested for years.  Still, imagine the outcry if Lance Armstrong admitted to doping but the cycling authorities were powerless to act in the absence of a positive test.

 

"The BHA has also been obliged to review its rules governing veterinary influence in the wake of the Butler episode. It still beggars belief that a vet should recommend Sungate, with its anabolic steroid component, for horses in a racing stable. Even allowing for the fact that regulating the veterinary profession is fraught with difficultly, such flagrant demands sanction by racing's disciplinarians rather than veterinary tribunal.

 

"We also learn that the drug-testing unit is rendered impotent when a horse is stabled in any environment other than BHA-licensed premises. This seriously undermines the fight against drugs and requires urgent action. Like racing in France, Britain must embrace the out-of-competition testing principle adopted by all other sports.

 

"It was interesting, too, to read the view of Tim Greet, a partner in Rossdales, the veterinary practice embroiled in the Butler case. In Greet's opinion, the vet who administered Sungate was treating horses for serious problems after thorough diagnosis, whereas by using Rexogin, which is ten times stronger, Butler administered a performance-enhancing amount of stanozolol. "They are entirely different things, " he said.

 

"Not according to the BHA if the blanket, six-month ban on horses testing positive to anabolic steroids is any gauge, Butler's horses, whether treated by Sungate or Rexogin, were sanctioned identically to Mahmood Al Zarooni's, who were plainly doped.

 

"The BHA's stance emphasises  next to no distinction is drawn between  performance-enhancing  and drugs used in a therapeutic capacity, even though  there is a clearly a difference in ideology. One is brazen cheating while the other has overtures of horse welfare.

 

"If Butler wanted to dope his horses with Al Zarooni's sinister intent, he would have injected the drug directly into the horses' muscles rather than their joints. It would have been more effective and far less risky to administer. Yet ironically, while the Butler case alludes to a less sinister motive, his horses may have gained more than Al Zarooni's in the long term.

 

"We are told the effect of Al Zarooni's doping programme would have run its course after six months. There would be no lasting benefit, yet in Butler's case, a horse whose damaged joint is repaired by steroids will benefit for the rest of its racing life.

 

"But this curious twist, does a horse treated on so-called welfare grounds end up gaining an edge by underhand means? No-one can quantify the effects of Sungate or Rexogin on the horses concerned. For that reason it is impossible to apply a suitable sanction.

 

"This  conundrum illustrates zero tolerance on anabolic steroids, together with the ban on race-day medication, is the only way to go - irrespective of veterinary advances on horse-welfare grounds.

 

" As much is clear from deeply contrasting opinions on whether using Lasix on bleeders is a humane or performance-enhancing treatment. If the area is grey, far better to stick to black and white. There may be ideologies  differences but the line of demarcation is too blurred to be drawn.    

 

"For further evidence of this opaque image, consider the use of race-day Lasix in the US. What started out in the mid-1960s as a humane treatment is used by 99 per cent of all racehorses in the US today. Any legitimate use of Lasix has long subsided under its abuse.

 

"A far clearer message to emerge from this summer of discontent is that Britain must commit increased funding to the war on drugs. It must become a minimum requirement for the winner of every race to be tested, which is not the  case at the moment. Significantly resources must also be available as and when testing in training is replaced by a proper, out-of-competition program.

 

"The present state of underfunding is best amplified by testing in training, in which 700-800 tests are taken annually. This is akin to a one-in-20 chance of any horse being randomly tested each year. It is woefully inadequate for a multi-billion - pound industry so reliant on integrity and consumer confidence. "     
     

J Margaret Clarke Turfcall Comment

KEY EQUUS FACTS

By the very nature of bloodhorse literacy.  Bloodhorse  illiteracy becomes a vast area of no man's land, dangerous indifference, inhumanity and sufferance  placed upon the horse, horses that through  injury have been prevented from competing further.  To include the horses  minders  ...  The  bloodhorse illiterate  BHA  parties acting within a bloodhorse illiterate government. This is, has been, and remains totally unacceptable practice  BHA Government power abuse of the very worst kind. Such cruelty sweeps in many  RSPCA parties and many Veterinary parties all being bloodhorse illiterate at this level upsides true horsemanship on the global horseracing stage.  Brutality  burdened upon the horses and the horsemen involved. The blind leading the blind power abuse as brought to light by the American horseman Monty Roberts his side kick  Kelly Marks and  our own Queen Elizabeth 11. Monty's friends.  Since the early 1980's global horseracing political and horseracing governments have had 30 years to put things right, but have failed to do so. WHY?

The money, the time and the skills involved in placing a yearling in training and on throughout that yearling's racing career two- year- old, three- year- old, four- year- old etc,  a massive task for those involved. for the owner to pay for, and the trainer team to achieve.

The bloodhorse literate belief here, in context, is that both Al Zarooni,  Butler and the other licensed trainers involved who have not been charged non are guilty.

Innocent victims that have been made scapegoats by BHA. Both these trainers

Al Zarooni and Butler are victims of false government practice through ignorance. That ignorance being  bloodhorse illiteracy.

 

ANABOLIC STEROID AND THE FEAR FACTOR

BHA spreading false information to the media worldwide,

leaving the racehorses and their minders to suffer in silence.

 

SOUND EQUUS BHA RULES WHERE ARE THEY?

British Political and Horseracing Government

Just as there are 'No BHA Sound Rules on  Whip Abuse' .
 

' No BHA Sound Rules on  Interference'  bumping, boring taking another competitors ground,  dirty riding, riding that can cause severe injury and death to racehorses and their riders.

 

SOUND GLOBAL EQUUS RULES ON ANABOLIC STEROIDS

AS A MEDICATION WHERE ARE THEY?

BHA making false statements to the press throughout the world.

The BHA jump to the wrong conclusion that anabolic steroids are dope.

There are no 'Sound Rules' on the use of anabolic steroid as a medication

 

Al Zarooni said at the BHA  trial he brought steroids back from Maydan Dubai where they are freely known and  used as an affective medication to treat racehorses coming off the racetracks battered and bruised, some in a very bad way indeed.  Used in this context anabolic steroids are a recognised approved effective medication used world wide for taking the inflammation out of  racehorses badly bruised joint injuries. Aiding recovery.  No trainer can train a lame horse, that lame horse needs knowledgeable restful nursing to bring him back from such injury within the environment of the licensed trainer in which the owner has placed the horse.

 

ANABOLIC STEROID MEDICATION

We may well ask where have these anabolic steroids come from?

What is the true reason for their purpose?

 Anabolic steroids were first made in the 1930s, and are now used therapeutically in medicine to stimulate bone growth and appetite, induce male puberty and treat chronic wasting conditions, such as cancer and AIDS. The American College of Sports Medicine acknowledges that AAS, in the presence of adequate diet, can contribute to increases in body weight, often as lean mass increases and that the gains in muscular strength achieved through high-intensity exercise and proper diet can be additionally increased by the use of AAS in some individuals.^[1]

Used by athletes in the mid 1950s and by the 1960s their use was widespread.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anabolic_steroid