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Originally Posted by CSC
I got this information from from the Racing Medication and Testing Consortium.
The drug, mepivacaine, is banned on race day in every jurisdiction in the country, a so-called Class 2 drug with a high potential to enhance performance because it can deaden pain in a horse's legs. The concentration found in No End in Sight's postrace tests was powerful - 750 times higher than another recent positive for mepivacaine - and resulted in a six-month suspension for Steve Asmussen, one of the country's most prolific and successful trainers and runner-up the last two years in voting for the Eclipse Award as top trainer.
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Riot is not saying that the drug can be GIVEN on race day, only that it is allowable in minute amounts in the horses system on race day.