“A couple years ago, I was at Keeneland and I told a vet, ‘I don’t want my horses to get anything unless they’re sick,’ and he said, ‘Arthur, you want to win, don’t you?’ I got the picture.”
Arthur Hancock, lamenting on how vet bills could run $2000 a month. There is a Congressional panel right now that is working on unifying drug rules in all 38 states with racing.
When asked who was to blame for the rampant use of drugs in the sport—vets, owners, or trainers—most panelists said all three.
