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The death of Eight Belles in Saturday's Kentucky Derby has led to calls for action, some of which make sense (banning the whip), and some of which do not (suspending jockey Gabriel Saez).
One proposal that makes so much sense that I'm surprised it hasn't happened a long time ago is banning trainers from drugging their horses on race day. Gina Rarick writes in the New York Times' horse racing blog, The Rail:
If a horse needs medication, it is not fit to run. That principle governs the rules of racing in all of Europe, most of Asia and Dubai. The United States, Canada, Saudi Arabia and some South American countries allow a panoply of race-day medications from anti-inflammatory drugs, which mask pain, to lasix, the diuretic drug that some believe controls bleeding in the lungs of a racehorse.If the horse racing governing bodies in most of the rest of the world can operate without giving horses drugs on the days they race, it seems to me that we can do it here. Horse racing authorities in the United States need to take these steps to show that they take the health and safety of their horses seriously.
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