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Old 06-20-2008, 11:22 PM
parsixfarms parsixfarms is offline
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Originally Posted by Riot
The positive hasn't yet been confirmed.

Yes, tests can be incorrect. The racing jurisdictions know it, as the procedure for split sample testing to eliminate laboratory error as a cause for a positive, and as confirmation of a positive, is built into the system.

The only reason the public knows of this positive is because the owner decided to talk about it.
As I read the articles, they don't seem to be disputing that the horse had an excessive amount of clenbuterol in his system; rather, they seem only to be questioning how it got there.
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