[FrogInABlender]

Hi there!

Pardon me for butting in, but I can see why they might ban it. If it's a vasodialator, it might enable some horses blood streams to carry more blood (oxygen) to their muscles, thereby giving them an unfair advantage, kind of like "Blood Doping" does for Olympic Athletes. Back in the 2002 Winter Olympics, two cross country skiers were stripped of their medals for doing it.

[HairOfTheDog]

Looks like you're right about that.... I found it banned in other disciplines.

[PayNoAttentionManBehindCurtain]

Mack just pointed out a good point. Take the use of this drug in context. If a fully conditioned, young, athlete takes it, that's one thing, but a 22 year old navicular horse???? Big difference.

Becky

[Beaker]

Hey Hair
My horse had Navicular and I had him on the Isosuxperene (yeah I know I'm misspelling it) and bar shoes. I wouldn't take him off of it personally. (Not that I'm trying to contradict anyone here.) If he's doing good, it could do him more harm to take him off it and put him back on it. I had my horse on Bute for a while, but it killed his poor stomach. Does Bay have Bar shoes?