I like how the Dancer's Image saga is presented like a hard luck story. Bute was legalized just a year after the owner's final appeal in 1973. I guess that somehow means he didn't cheat back in 1968. The only advantage the connections of Dancer's Image took were simply being "ahead of their time".
I also enjoyed the rebuttal to the "60 Minutes" piece about drug abuse in 1979, citing an incomplete statistical presentation. If you count up all the races run in 1978, there was only a major medication violation in roughly 1 out of every 4000 starters. Only 303 major violations. What is that, like one every raceday?
"Ladies and gentlemen, welcome to Needle Park, here are today's changes and major medication violations..."
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