A detention barn is a supervised holding area where horses are required to report a certain time before they are scheduled to race. In NY, it's 6 hours before. A horse running at 1pm needs to be in the detention barn by 7am for example. The theory behind it is that operations that are utilizing certain methods with their stock will be unable to reach horses in the barn to do whatever they may be doing to them to gain performance advantages. It doesn't necessarily work, but gives at least an outward appearence that something is being done to prevent shenanigans...
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