Small amount's don't smell a great deal maybe that is why .
Small amount's don't smell a great deal maybe that is why .
Have whoever you want on but don't ever have yourself on
Small amounts don't smell at all. The only time I can really smell it is if a horse is drenched with it. I used it as part of a mixture of a leg tightener, it doesn't smell at all and I apply it with my bare hands, I can't smell/taste it either. Maybe its me, but even with an unopened bottle I can only smell it if I literally get quite close to have a whiff (my first experience with DMSO! lol!)
Breno is right. I'm not talking about illegal raceday drenching at all. Many trainers drench horses with DMSO - like I said, I'm not talking about raceday (that would be suicidal, you could smell the stench from the other side of the track!) but rather theraputically for many reasons, but the main reason would be to clean the horses system out, ie if they had a cold etc. It is also good for cleaning up lungs etc. Obviously if you are using DMSO for these reasons your horse is not even in a fit state to race anyway, so it is a moot point. If someone was silly enough to drench a horse with it on raceday it wouldn't effect the horse's performance anyway (IMHO) so I don't know why they would bother!! Plus the smell would give you away before you unloaded the horse off the truck!!
Last edited by Flashing Red; 12-23-2011 at 01:25 PM.
Thanks Flashing,
just for interests sake, I wasn't referring to raceday drenching, just drenching with the vile stuff! I have used it many times externally on horses for it's penetrative qualities. It acts similar to a solvent in this situation and I was just curious about treating horses internally with it.
Cheers,
Harry
Very interesting reading TVOR seems as though you have a good idea of the D thomas case but not so with D. Wilson case,From what I can remember D. Wilson was also away from the stables during the time that the horse that he was training returned a positive swab , but unlike D Thomas because he was the regisitered trainer D Wilson was suspended. I'm not sure whether D Wilson's Mother was was around at the time to take the rap or It might have been a different panel of stewards either way it does seem to be two similar cases with two different outcomes.
As I said in the original post I have no knowledge of the circumstances surrounding the action taken against Dennis Wilson so I have no opinion.
On face value what you say makes sense but every appeal judge will tell you each case has to be judged on its own facts and circumstances.
The reason the trainer is the one responsible for the horse turning up race day substance free is because he is the one collecing the money from the owners every month and the percentages of prize money not the stablehands! (that rule seems common sense to me ash singh)
lance was only responsible for smoken up and captain joy in n.z. there is no one else to blame if lance doesnt like it then i suggest he go bak and be a stable hand with no responsabilities. otherwise suck it up and lets move on bring on ID12 in perth