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The testing that revealed this is largely unused by thoroughbred venues, Instead of dealing with what the drug culture does to the game and to the thoroughbreds themselves, we are arguing over Lasix and whips. Brilliant! just doesn't cover it .....
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It is one possibility, but absent seeing the vet records and Baffert/Zedan (btw, where is he in all this?) making all treating vets available to speak on all relevant topics, all of this is guesswork at best.
In short, this is another explanation as to why he doesn't have to be stupid to have "cheated." The horse might have needed Beta to make it to the starting gate, or even to
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JB,
We are not a point where we can say with any confidence what effect the Beta had on MS. One reason is that what we know about this matter is what Baffert has chosen to reveal. That’s it, period. We have no veterinary records. We have no testimony from any veterinarian as to what MS was given, why, and when. And some of what Baffert has revealed is gossamer, like the groom urination stor
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TDN article, containing portions of interviews conducted with Mary Scollay, Kentucky vet who s now executive director of the RMTC. Some portions were conducted yesterday, before Baffert's latest explanation related to Otomax. Scollay is careful to say what she knows and doesn't know, but the most interesting part of the interview was her statement that while she (we all) still doesn
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Early in the '80's at Saratoga. NYRA carded a stakes for NY-breds. At the time, I was working in the barn of Hall of Famer James Maloney, who trained a fast and talented filly named Move It Now. Maloney entered her to run against the boys in that stakes. We led her over, she was saddled, warmed up, and as she was circling behind the gate waiting to be loaded, the starter sprung the la
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The Arthur interview was covered previously in this thread:
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Jerry, even if you have the samples, you still need a comprehensive list of prohibited substances to test against, or testing frozen samples is pointless.
Meaning that I take Rick Arthur's point to be that even if we could test some of the hypothetically frozen Navarro samples now, knew what to look for and found the sheep collagen, if sheep collagen wasn't on the prohibited list at
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Fair points, but none of this came to light as a result of drug testing. Further, while there may be evidence that the feds have but is not disclosed in the indictment, there is no allegation in the indictment that the doping has been confirmed (yet anyway) by testing. As they say, the investigation continues, so it is possible that such evidence may be forthcoming.
But speaking of Arthur, h
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It takes a strong stomach to read all of the self-serving nonsense being spewed by some of the owners who had horses with these trainers. They are shocked, stunned, disgusted by the indictments. Anyone who has ever spent any -- and I mean any -- time on the backstretch should have had serious doubts (at the bare minimum) about the unprecedented feats of um, ahhh, horsemanship being performed by
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As pointed out below, it was a figure of speech, meant to identify OTHER newsworthy and/or interesting tidbits, such as the one I recited. If it would restore the equilibrium, happy to relabel the string "All sorts of other nuggets in this indictment."
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Paragraph 25k of Count I of the indictment recites a telephone conversation on May 29, 2019 between Navarro and unidentified "operators" of a horse-racing stable in California, regarding the performance of a horse named Nanoosh. (These guys apparently never learned to stay off the phones and to not put anything in writing .. . brilliant!) One of the operators asks whether the horse was
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Just conveying Senator Feinstein's statements about her intentions if there was a breakdown during the BC.
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Regrettably, the fatality in the Classic yesterday may be the enduring memory and legacy of this year's BC. If so, it may be the final nail in the coffin for racing, as outlined in the link below. If so, racing will have played a large role in its own demise, as it has done next to nothing to meaningfully address the growing public perception that racing is just an elaborate form of animal
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Was ruled off the grounds today at all tracks operated by The Stronach Group, after a fourth horse of his broke down since the start of the meet, bringing us to a grand total of 30. Reportedly Del Mar will not offer him stalls either. This follows a CNN hit on him last night.
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Tavasco,
It's hard to know where to start ....
First, you understand, don't you, that the concept of "conviction" was passed fifty miles ago as what happened is that Chad Brown has ADMITTED to the offenses described in the consent decree? Whether or not the facts alleged are true has already been settled.
Your reference to room and board and wage packages have nothin
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And Espinoza had the mount on AP well before this incident. He rode him to win the Del Mar Futurity on September 4th, weeks prior to the Awesome Again.
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The link below is to an excellent article about the new NYSGC drug testing protocol that recently went into effect. It exposes some of the fundamental issues involved in testing, as well as the financial and legal obstacles in taking the steps that many want the industry to take.
First, as TGJB has stated before, there is a fundamental issue of economics here, as the entire process involved i
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If the DRF is to be trusted, Effinex had been at Palm Meadows since no later than February 4th, when he breezed a half-mile at PmM. He then worked more or less weekly at PmM before the half breeze that Frank noted at SA on 3/8, four days before the Big Cap.
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Depends on what you mean by early. GR shipped in last week and in fact worked at SA on Sunday, 5f in 1:00 and 2, very impressive work at that.
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After Lady Shipman's no-account performance yesterday down the hill, Kiaran is now 0-for-22 in the last 5 years shipping into Santa Anita. With that record in mind, a distance challenged horse, and one who may well be over the top, I'd need more than 8-1 to be interested.
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Elevated white count, meaning treatment with antibiotics. Just not enough time to recover.
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Would be nice to know the answer to that and a bunch of related questions. Transparency anyone? Pool integrity anyone?
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After that last race I want Prat deported for the opposite reason.
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She looked to be ready about now but likely has been impacted by the Payson Park quarantine.
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The next time you read that tested samples came back clean, be skeptical.
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Miff,
Very uphill battle, particularly among those active in claiming game. Not hopeful of any meaningful progress anytime soon, unfortunately.
But look at the bright side: Those of us that are hardcore horseplayers probably limit our gambling action to the ponies, and therefore didn't lose money on Pacquiao without knowing he had a torn rotator cuff.
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Could be Frank. Certainly that has been the reputation but whether that is the way it's going down, no clue.
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