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Originally Posted by mountainman
An admirable sentiment, sir. But drugging was SO widespread and accepted back in the day, that Johnny Loftus once stood before the stewards and alibied a Sir Barton loss by blaming the trainer, Hard Guy Bedwell, for putting him on a "cold" horse.
Reportedly, officials considered that reason enough to reprimand both Loftus AND Bedwell. The unwritten policy simply asked that a horseman be consistent- Either dope a horse ALL the time, or none of the time.
And, of course, relating to Ben Jones....the occasional inference that Citation was addicted to cocaine.
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And according to Grace Jones Citation spent the last years of his life standing in line at Studio 54 but he was no longer on the list.
