Thoroughbred Trainer Pletcher Not Worried about Salix Ban

All Pletcher’s 2-year-olds have raced on Salix in all of their starts.
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Of thoroughbred trainer Todd Pletcher’s 10 horses pre-entered for the Breeders’ Cup World championship, three of them will vie for favoritism in 2-year-old races–Shanghai Bobby in the Grey Goose Breeders’ Cup Juvenile, Dreaming of Julia in the Grey Goose Breeders’ Cup Juvenile Fillies, and Kauai Katie, who will run in either the Breeders’ Cup Juvenile Sprint (gr. II) or Juvenile Fillies.

Pletcher also has Tara From the Cape in the Breeders’ Cup Juvenile Fillies Turf (gr. IT).

His 2-year-old strength brings up the question of the Breeders’ Cup’s newly instituted ban on furosemide (Salix or Lasix) in their 2-year-old championship races this year, a medication with which Pletcher’s horses have raced in all their starts

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Steve Haskin is Senior Contributor to The Blood-Horse magazine, sister publication to The Horse.

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