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I'm an amateur gambler and I try to make to the horse races a few times a year. My question is why do they give horses Lasix? The trainers and the track must declare if their horse is on Lasix and even have to declare whether this is the first time the horse has been on Lasix. My father's family used to own racehorses and I asked him and he told me that it was because they will "bleed into their lungs" without the Lasix. I am assuming that he is referring to pulmonary edema. So what's the mechanism? Lasix is widely used on racehorses and it gave rise to the phrase "I gotta piss like a racehorse." Anyways, I figured someone out there must know the exact reason they use Lasix and why it might enhance performance.