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Originally Posted by philcski
so you think the asst trainer f*cked up and gave her the medvipcane too close to race time and didn't tell him for fear of getting fired or something?
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Wait a While got a procaine pen positive and they knowingly treated her 18 days out. The CA drug rules supposedly state that 15 days is the reccomended withdrawl time (which is really strange since almost everyone agrees that 21 days is not even a safe day) for PP. The vet assured him and supposedly they have that in writing that the horse would be ok. Why they didnt prerace test her and be safe I dont know. Why anyone would think that PP would be 99% (there is no 100% sure) chance of being clear is unknown. It is a readily known fact that the detectable levels of PP can linger for up to 28 days and considering the Breeders Cup has as complete testing as any race in this country it was a really bad mistake. But I would strongly suggest that there was zero percent chance that the levels found were performance enhancing.