“If they hadn’t stopped me after I gave [AirPower] to Gato Go Win, then I would have done the same with I Want Revenge.”
Mucolytics "Airpower" (medications used to mobilize or clear secretions or surpress cough) are voo doo. They are ineffective in thinning secretions and do nothing to supress cough or dilate bronchi or airways in humans.
Given how likely Mullins was to get caught administering anything in the DB, I can't help but wonder if their was more in this syringe than a useless cough medicine and mucolytic but that the contents was undetectable by conventional drug testing. The whole thing makes no sense as the risk far exceeds the reward as the facts are known and written currently.
Either of these two horses would likely have been scratched if they had real upper respiratory illness why would Mullins take a chance of this magnitude to give a horse a useless substance that has no data to support it's use in humans or horses. It's more likely that we don't know what he actually has or had planned to give his horses.
I would not have come to this conclusion until reading that he planned that both horses would get the same OTC medication.
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