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Re: [RC] Big Horn - Truman PrevattYou do have a point. I read that 2 page diatribe and walked away scratching my head. A horse was given a drug that there is no disagreement from anyone that should be banned and ran a couple days later. The horse was caught in a drug test. That is fact and that fact should be paramount in the determination of the sanction.What I saw was two pages of convoluted reasoning to justify a minimal sanction. Sure a lawyer would probably have eaten the AERC in court based on the fact that it's policy is confusing, not well documented and where it is documented (it's official website) it is wrong. On the other hand the facts still stand - a drugged horse won this ride and tested positive for drugs. The excuses given were as lame as the excuses Rafael Pammanro gave when he tested positive for steroid use by MLB - oh I didn't know I took it. At least MLB had the stones to enforce their drug rule. From what I read in the EN it looks like the AERC was trying like the dickens to figure out how to give a "slap on the hand" for a major violation and walk away. It seems to me that the AERC better figure out how to write a drug rule that is clear and understandable, contract with labs to test to the rule not to what they think the AERC wants, to put a big set of fangs in it and enforce it. Truman oddfarm wrote: Truman, don't count on the BOD to "determine in an orderly manner what happened" because they can't even seem to figure out who is responsible for the horse's well-being to begin with. Re: the protest in the July EN. They can't even seem to keep their own protests in any kind of "order" letting some riders voluntarily pay a penitence of their choice and other not having that option. Heck, it is even "honorable" now to claim ignorance when it comes to caring for your horse, or who's ever it is. -- “With or without religion, you would have good people doing good things and evil people doing evil things. But for good people to do evil things, that takes religion.” Steven Weinberg – Nobel Laureate, Physics =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= Ridecamp is a service of Endurance Net, http://www.endurance.net. Information, Policy, Disclaimer: http://www.endurance.net/Ridecamp Subscribe/Unsubscribe http://www.endurance.net/ridecamp/logon.asp Ride Long and Ride Safe!! =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=
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