Exploding Chestnuts
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I don't have any old Timeform annuals sry, its seems clear horses in the US are trained on almost anything, Lasix for example [to stop bleeders] is allowed in most races, it is not a level playing field, and for this reason alone is not allowed in the UK.
If horses are run on Bute or other drugs in Dubai this will not be good for horse health [though of course we often give Bute to leisure horses] and it is fairly self evident that horses which are on bute will statistically have more breakdowns on the racecourse than those which are healthy, though no one is going to set up a trial to prove it. The horses which are fatally injured on track can be blood tested, I suppose, not sure if they all are.
Not sure about comparing times from years gone by as track surfaces will have changed significantly, even the distances may be open to challenge, and of course training methods should have increased pure speed and also stamina to some extent, otherwise people would not use modern, science based methods.
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