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Originally Posted by Riot
Mepivacaine is allowed to be in a horses system on race day.
Yes, nanograms matter.
There are dosages at which drugs can influence or affect performance, and dosages at which that is impossible. That is the whole point.
A drug positive is an actionable offense, indeed, but not all drug positives are proof of attempting to influence a horses performance.
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It's funny that you can say that its incorrect to assume that a drug positive is definitive proof that there was an attempt to affect performance, but then turn around and say that a drug found at a certain level is definitive proof that there
wasn't an attempt to affect performance.
How are these threshold levels determined? Is the research conducted on racehorses? Is the treatment protocol identical to how someone would use it illegally just prior to a race? I doubt it.
Local anesthetics, as the name suggest, are deposited locally and not typically administered directly into a vein, and yet the blood is what is tested. What if I administer a less-than-recommended dose (who says those are necessarily accurate either?) in a single site 4-6 hours prior to post? Since local anesthetics last several hours, couldn't that be sufficient to enhance performance, and if so, is that enough of a time frame to allow drug to be absorbed into the blood stream such that it would test?
Maybe they should think about taking blood samples 2 or 3 days after a race, too.