Monday, June 23, 2014

Jockey Club seeks support for Lasix study

LEXINGTON, Ky. – The Jockey Club has begun seeking support for a multi-million-dollar study that would assess the efficacy of the diuretic furosemide in treating bleeding in horses’ lungs when it is administered 24 hours out from a race compared with the current regulatory limit of four hours, opening up a new debate in a deeply controversial topic.
Jockey Club executive director Matt Iuliano introduced the idea for the study at a meeting of the Kentucky Equine Drug Council on Tuesday afternoon outside Lexington, where the proposal received a mix of lukewarm support and outright hostility from some council members, including an equine veterinarian and the president of the Kentucky Horsemen’s Benevolent and Protective Association.

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