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I'll add five things.
1. Stanozolol was once marketed as Winstrol, but production was discontinued a few years ago. In order to obtain stanozolol today vets would have to go to a compounding pharmacy and have some made up. This means it is more possible than it was previously for the dosing to vary.
2. Stanozolol has long been the treatment of choice in cases of failure to thrive, or post-surgically (primarily gelding). It works very well as an appetite stimulant and as hormone replacement therapy after gelding. Stanozolol does have anabolic effects.
3. Horses metabolyze the drug at varying rates and in some cases it may take 90 days to clear a horse's system. However, it is uncommon that the drug wouldn't clear a horse's system in 45 days.
4. The amount of the drug in Masochistic's system had no performance enhancing effect on raceday
5. The recommended withdrawal times are just that. They are not part of the standard. This is currently an issue with horsemen, especially considering that some of the withdrawal times are not correlated with the ability of current testing technology to find extremely low concentrations of substances. In other words, why provide a recommended withdrawal time when they are not protective?
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