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Originally Posted by Rupert Pupkin
The detention barn is good because it prevents guys from giving anything to the horse within 6 hours (or however long they have to stay in the detention barn for) of the race. Most of the undetectable drugs that the cheaters give the horses were usually given to the horse a few hours before the race. So at least the test barn prevents this from happening.
Unfortunately some of the more sophisticated cheaters have stuff that is so strong that it does not have to be admisitered within a few hours of the race.
So the bottom line is that the detention barn stops your average cheater but it doesn't stop your really sophisticated cheater that has drugs that don't need to be administered within a few hours of the race.
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This is a myth. If it were so then wouldn't it be fairly easy to catch guys giving these drugs? The detention barns really dont stop anything that is useful anyway. Vets just give the stuff that they would give with Lasix a little earlier and most of it is questionable in its effectivness anyway. The drugs of choice now are either given on a daily basis or are simply modified existing drugs that there are no tests for. The most effective drug of the last 20 years, EPO, is still being used in a modified form without markers. You dont need to give that anywhere near raceday.