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By the time a horse touches hooves to the finish line after a five-furlong race, gone a sixth of the way around a 3-star cross-country course, or made it to the end of a Grand Prix show jumping round, he will have cycled approximately 475 gallons of air into and out of his lungs. To help visualize this: Imagine the average American bathtub “filled it with air” and then added five more tubs next to …

The therapeutic drug, furosemide, commonly referred to as Lasix, has been a controversial topic throughout the American thoroughbred racing community since the 1970s. Being administered to performance horses hours before hitting the starting gate, Lasix’s primary function is believed to be to reduce blood from entering the airways during exercise (EIPH). The drug causes a horse to increase urine p …