Drug positives at Canterbury Park

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Originally Posted by paisjpq

It isn't that the drug is wrong or bad...but it isn't approved for use in horses, meaning it is more than likely that they didn't get it from their vets (at least not the horsey vet)...which can lead one to conclude that they are trying to elude the testing. Vets use drugs off label all the time, (even giving rabies vaccines to late term broodmares is off label) this just seems worse.

Not to mention there is less of a chance for them to test for a non-approved drug. AP happens to be using the "super" test which isnt really super but means that they are screening for a far greater number of drugs than usual. places like FL sometimes are only screening for 5 or 6 drugs and almost always test for lasix which is a huge waste of money for the most part. The fact that two of the trainers got multiple positives in a short period of time means they probably have been using it for a while but they recently just started testing for it. Of course we have no idea what the levels were or if there were any chance that the positives affected performance because there is almost zero research done in this area.

I'm sure I sound like a broken record but detecting a legal medication at a minute level that has zero chance to effect the performance of a horse is not my idea of a solid, dependable testing program. But for the vast majority of positive tests that is exactly what happens. If trainers can elude the testing simply by using a non-equine approved med that is easily attainable, what makes anyone think that the real juice will ever be found? Does anyone really think that AP is the only place these trainers use this particular med?