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Just imagine how frustrating it must be if you're a honest non drug using trainer and you wait your whole life to come up up with that one special horse and then you finally do and you get your doors blown open weekly by an inferior horse with superior drugs.
clearly based on the indictments the tbreds had issues as wellwere they as bad and as widespread as harness, hard to saybut clearly over the years harness times have dropped drastically while tbreds have not and harness is fixated on how fast the mile went where tbreds much less so to the previous point it has really skewed how you look at harness champions of the past, some might be legitimate awesome horses and deserved what they got while others might have had lots of "help", not that different from baseballs dilemma with steroids and the hall of fameAs Ive posted before. The best information they could put in a sale catalog would be the trainers name when mares record was taken. The USTA should erase All the world records of the past 10 years and start over.
If you take a deep breath and realistically digest the ramifications of PED usage, it can be mind boggling how deeply it skewed the horse business, namely resulting in counterfeit champions, counterfeit trainers and counterfeit drivers.
Did anyone wonder how the doper Chris Oakes' trainee Homicide Hunter won in a world record of 148.4 at the Red Mile in October 2018? Makes you also wonder how the entrees in that race had no chance against him.