Article from today's NY Daily News

[golfer]

http://www.nydailynews.com/sports/mo...age_wit-2.html

Richard Dutrow makes some comments, allow me to highlight:

Trainer Rick Dutrow Jr., who trains Kentucky Derby favorite Big Brown, admits using the steroid stanozolol (Winstrol) on his horses.

"I give all my horses Winstrol on the 15th of every month," Dutrow says. "If they (the authorities) say I can't use it anymore I won't."

Outside of steroids, racing has cleaned up its image thanks to improved testing. In 2006 there were only three positive tests for Class I drugs used solely for performance-enhancing purposes.

Despite that encouraging statistic, Dutrow believes there is doping still going on.

"Without a doubt," says the trainer. "I don't know how but I'm sure it happens every day. Some people just want to make their horses run faster."

[Danzig]

hmm, richard dutrow thinks doping is going on. go figure.

[pgiaco]

I nearly lost my lunch when I read Dutrow's quote.

[Kasept]

So there's no confusion, and I'm hardly a Dutrow apologist, Winstrol and the other approved steroids (Equipoise, etc.) remain legal in most racing juristictions and are NOT performance-enhancers. The jargon that "Dutrow admits giving Winstrol" makes it seem like that alone is an indictment of some kind and it isn't and should not be. .

The steroids are not the 'drug problem'. Tubing of horses (lactic acid reducing) and pain-maskers (snail or cobra venom, "caine" family drugs) represent the 'drug problem'.

Chasing steroids out is a seperate issue and has a benefit in certain areas, but currently is being employed as a publicity stunt to give the appearence of progress in ridding the game of 'drugs'.

[Danzig]

i doubt anyone is confused at all about dutrow and his comments.
lol he 'doesn't know' how illegal doping happens....too funny.

[ELA]

Steve, I am sure many uneducated -- both fans/bettors and non-fans/bettors -- will rant and rave about this. I am sure the media will play a role as well. It's no different from any trainer -- and there have been several -- who said they use such and such on a regular basis.

I think it's an entirely different issue, but even to those who understand -- it might not be the statement as much as it is the author.

Eric

[Kasept]

Originally Posted by Danzig

i doubt anyone is confused at all about dutrow and his comments. lol he 'doesn't know' how illegal doping happens....too funny.

Zig..

I was addressing the silly way the Winstrol 'admission' was termed by the author of the piece. I guarantee a great number of readers here and everywhere IMMEDIATELY interpretted 'steroid use' as the application of performance-enhancing drugs.