Lasix to be discussed at public meeting June 5 - Lexington Herald-Leader

The Kentucky Horse Racing Commission will have a three-hour town hall meeting June 5 to allow public comment on the proposed phaseout of the use of the anti-bleeder medication furosemide during races. The hearing will be at the Capitol Annex ...

Debate Swirls Around Race-Day Medication - New York Times Blogs

The debate over race-day medication has focused on furosemide, a diuretic known as Lasix that has been used to treat racehorses since the 1970s. The medication stems exercise-induced pulmonary hemorrhage, or bleeding, in their lungs. It comes a ...

Kentucky commission to hold ‘town hall’ on Lasix - Daily Racing Form

LEXINGTON, Ky. – The Kentucky Horse Racing Commission plans to press ahead with a discussion over the possible phase-out of the raceday use of the anti-bleeding medication furosemide in stakes races with a town-hall style meeting in early June.

NY Thoroughbreds support the use of Lasix - Harness Link.com

The following is a letter from the New York Thoroughbred Horsemen's Association to New York State Racing and Wagering Board Chairman John Sabini supporting the use of Lasix as a race day medication. Dear Chairman Sabini, For everyone involved in the sport ...

Conditioning and Winning, Lasix-Free - New York Times Blogs

Horses evolved as social grazers of the plains, group survivalists moving and grazing together most all of the time. During their 60-million-year evolution, horses came to require near-constant forage, friends and locomotion to maintain health ...

Three Belmont Trainers, Horses, Don’t Need No Stinking Lasix - HorseRaceInsider.com

SARATOGA SPRINGS, NY, May 13, 2012—In the wake of Saturday’s Peter Pan Stakes, it’s like that comparisons will be made between the tactics of Right To Vote in the local prep for the Belmont and Bodemeister’s attempted heist of the Kentucky Derby.

Web campaigns for, against race-day Lasix launched - Worldnews.com

Kentucky's of streams provides one of the most expansive and complex stream systems in the nation. Kentucky has both the largest artificial lake east of the Mississippi in water volume (Lake Cumberland) and surface area (Kentucky Lake). It is the only U.S ...

Kentucky commission debates revised Salix ban proposal - Thoroughbred Times

Not long after a proposal to completely phase out race-day furosemide (Salix, also commonly called Lasix) reached a stalemate in the Kentucky Horse Racing Commission, the regulatory group examined a revised plan that only affected competitors in ...

Horse Racing Commission Still Split On Drug Ban - WTVQ

The deep divide inside the Kentucky horse industry continues over the use of an anti-bleeding drug commonly known by its brand name, Lasix. It pitted horse racing’s public image against what’s best for the horse during meetings Wednesday by two ...

Racing Commission Considering Ban of Anti-Bleeding Drug - WFPL

The Kentucky Horse Racing Commission has set a town hall meeting to discuss a proposal that would phase out the use of an anti-bleeding drug on race days in the U.S. The drug, furosemide, also known as Lasix, is given to horses to prevent ...