Comments on: ATTORNEY: VET HAD NO INTENTION TO USE COBRA VENOM

By: Legal Knievel: Jumping Regulatory Gaps « The Thoroughbred Brief

Legal Knievel: Jumping Regulatory Gaps « The Thoroughbred Brief — Thu, 04 Dec 2008 19:46:36 +0000

[...] of training centers, jockeys’ vest requirements, and a new “crop” rule, to the KHRC hearing of veterinarian Rodney Stewart’s appeal of his 5 year suspension for various violations of [...]

By: Sarah

Sarah — Thu, 04 Dec 2008 01:33:23 +0000

Well said Denise and G. Racing is without shame and moral compass. Owners and trainers are a perfect match and Biancone’s owners can no longer pretend ignorance about their trainer’s character. Biancone in CA? Now that’s interesting because it is one of the better policed states though it has still too many scumbags, bad races and a long way to go to be ethical and humane.

By: Denise

Denise — Wed, 03 Dec 2008 20:22:08 +0000

Well, I guess Dr. Stewart and Mr. Biancone must moon light as witch doctors; their attorneys as money sucking machines atuned to the US legal system. Thanks, all of you for bringing better horses and a clean game to the horse racing table; like we don’t have enough problems with this industry…and the “powers that be” will just keeping looking the other way in some sorry attempt to say “see, racing works and we clean up on our own act”.

Technology and sleezeballs always outpace regulation and enforcement.

By: G. Rarick

G. Rarick — Wed, 03 Dec 2008 19:40:43 +0000

Can’t agree more with Denise. What the hell did he have the stuff for in the first place? The real stunner is how this vet AND Biancone can continue to have anything to do with the racing industry. Why haven’t they both been barred for life?

Unfortunately, the pharmaceutical lobby and fractured, state-by-state governance of racing have combined to ruin the sport, and there seems no going back. Everybody has been patting themselves on the back because of the steroid ban, and while that was long overdue, it is far from enough to fix the problem.

http://www.gallopfrance.com

By: Denise

Denise — Wed, 03 Dec 2008 18:14:01 +0000

OH PUHLEEZEEEE! “No intended use?” Who the hell has this stuff? And for what purpose? Cobra Venom? Is there a big need to treat cobra bites on US tracks or for the greater population at large? What turnip truck did these folks fall off of?

Smells like a horse racing version of O.J.’s murder trial. Gotta love those attorneys though…don’t they just make the world spin ’round. Our legal system is a shrinking, shriveled up vassal of truth and justice manipulated by word games, semantics, evidentiary law/precedent and to the highest bidder goes the ruling.

And who suffers? The victim: the horse (running when it shouldn’t), the jock (if spills occur) and the betting fan (lack of truth in condition)….and no one else seems to be bothered? God save us.