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Originally Posted by pandy
It's obvious the way Baffert's horses run (fast early, don't get tired in the stretch the way other trainer's horses do) that something is being applied artificially.
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Could it be this?
Secretariat with his
oversized heart* was a freak of nature. I was looking for a reason how a few current trainers seem to get their non-freaky horses to run without backing up, i.e., run all day long like Secretariat but just at a lower speed.
These articles may have been posted here before but I couldn't find them.
https://www.paulickreport.com/news/r...doping-threat/
“It is, I would say, just about epidemic use in our industry,” he (Sams) said in an Oct. 2, 2018, meeting of the KEDRC. “Some trainers, I'm not going to mention any names,
their horses are just rebreaking at the eighth pole."
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“Biological passports have been used very successfully in human testing to detect EPO,” said Sams. “It does not work in horses for a number of reasons, one of which is the ability of the horse to store red blood cells in the spleen and the ability to then release them. We don't see a lot of stability in hematocrit and hemoglobin because the horse can release those red blood cells when it's being handled
before the blood sample is collected.”
https://www.paulickreport.com/news/t...rdbred-horses/
“Unfortunately IOX-2 is just one doping agent and we are not naive to believe that others are not finding their way into professional sport. Whether it be a racing lab or a WADA lab, we share a common mission and can never let our guard down. Today, it's IOX-2, tomorrow it's going to be something else,” said Ed Martin, ARCI President.
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oversized heart
https://issuu.com/equestriandirector...020/s/10168613
