Charlsie Cantey a Horsewoman and Broadcast Pioneer Joins the Water Hay Oats Alliance - (2026)

” My career in Thoroughbred racing began in 1968, the year Dancer's Image was disqualified in the Kentucky Derby for Butazolidin. After four decades of violating yearlings, galloping horses, developing a small string and covering national racing broadcasts from coast-to-coast, I retired in 2005 from active involvement in an industry, by then governed by a patchwork of permissive medication rules I no longer recognise .   ” Today, I feel that it is imperative that the U.S. cease race-day drug and that we do so now; hence I fully support WHOA's attempts. Our decades of dangerously loose regulations are inexplicable to the rest of the world, and wholly unforgivable for the safety of our horses .”