Here is what happens to trainers, but do you see any mention of the compounding pharmacy, the pharmacists or the veterinarians?
Mr. Norman had been fined or suspended 30 times in four states for
drugging horses. The authorities had accused him three times of
administering an illegal “milkshake” — a concoction of baking soda,
sugar and electrolytes delivered through a tube down a horse’s throat to
combat fatigue by breaking up lactic acid. Mr. Norman was also
incarcerated for killing a driver in a head-on collision while under the influence of prescription painkillers.
In 1984, Mr. Delahoussaye lost his Louisiana training license after a
conviction for check fraud, and Ohio later suspended him for possessing
syringes and drugs and for using a makeshift electric cattle prod on a
horse. Mr. Gill himself had once been suspended from racing after
syringes and needles were found in his barn at a New Hampshire
racetrack.
A grand jury in Dauphin County, Pa., investigated reports of horse
doping and other corrupt acts. But Mr. Delahoussaye was the only one
charged, with doping. A plea agreement kept him out of jail — and out of
racing in Pennsylvania.
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