Saturday, December 7, 2013

Question of the Day December 7, 2013 What are the reporters and Congress Missing in these Stories Regarding Doping in Horse racing? How many times are compounded preparations used? What compounding pharmacies do they come from? And what happens to those pharmacies, pharmacists and the veterinarians?

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. 

read the entire and very interesting New York Times Article Here

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