Friday, May 2, 2014

05/02/2014 2:44PM Derby, Oaks drug tests come up clean By Matt Hegarty

All 75 blood samples pulled from horses entered on the Kentucky Oaks and Kentucky Derby cards at Churchill Downs on Friday and Saturday tested negative for blood-doping drugs and illegal peptides, the Kentucky Horse Racing Commission announced on Friday morning.
The tests were performed on blood samples from every horse entered in the Derby and the Oaks, according to Dr. Mary Scollay, the KHRC’s equine medical director. The KHRC also pulled blood samples from “a random cross-section” of approximately four horses in each of the stakes races on the Friday and Saturday undercard, Scollay said on Friday.
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