In a 1992 article in The North American Review entitled «The Corruption of Nobility: The Rise & Fall of Thoroughbred Racing in America,» Ferraro penned a stinging
rebuke against drug abuse on the backstretch, saying, «In general, treatments designed to repair a horse's injuries and to alleviate its suffering are now often used to get the animal out onto the track to compete — to force the animal, like some punch - drunk fighter, to make just one more round.