Despite the Evidence, Trainers Deny a Doping Problem By JOE DRAPE Published: November 22, 2013

On Thursday morning, representatives of the horse-racing industry told Congress that thoroughbred racing’s drug problem was a myth. On Thursday afternoon, a report by the California Horse Racing Board revealed that Bob Baffert, a Hall of Fame trainer, had been giving every horse in his barn a thyroid hormone without ever checking to see if any of them had thyroid problems.
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