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On any day at any racetrack there is a trainer or two or more that has been suspended for drug violations.

Barring a successful Hail Mary from his legal team, Rick Dutrow will begin serving a 10-year suspension any day now ...

This is not really about picking on Quarter Horse racing, sending a message or even making an example out of one trainer.

When done right, horse racing can still be extremely successful.

If the sport is finally determined to do the right thing drug violators will be dealt with severely.

This is no doubt the beginning of the end of Lasix use in U.S. racing.

Two days of high-level meetings on the future of drugs in racing are now in the books and what do we have? An agreement to keep talking.

In five weeks, 20 or so of the best 3-year-old race horses in America will go into the starting gate and vie for the sport's greatest jewel, the Kentucky Derby trophy. And every one of them will be drugged.

It's not the Triple Crown that needs fixing, but the horses that run in the Triple Crown.

This is still a sport where catastrophic injury rates are far too high, where thousands of thoroughbreds go to slaughter every year and where the use of legal drugs is condoned.

The year 2008 can't end soon enough and I wish to send it on its way with a truly appropriate column, The Worst of 2008.

Foreign horses don't need drugs and can beat these other horses running on drugs? Bill Filney says that's downright Un-American.

While horse racing is making very slow but somewhat steady progress in its fight to rid itself of scourges like steroids and a number of illegal drugs, it shouldn't continue to ignore another drug that has no place in the game. It's time for Lasix to go.

While it may be true that the entire racing industry is trying to deal with integrity and drug issues, some are trying harder than others.

I am horse racing and these are my New Year's resolutions:

My guess that racing in Indiana is as honest as it gets, thanks to Joe Gorajec