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In regard to the definition of ped, if it's to enable the horse to run past their ability on their best day, you are correct. If, however, it's to allow an individual horse to run past their ability given physical problems they're dealing with, then beta could well act as a ped.
Regarding whether it acted as a painkiller, if it could be seen as equivalent of an intraarticular injection given less than 72 hours earlier, which Dr. Scollay indicated, I can't see how it wouldn't be acting as such an injection is supposed to act. The KHRC guideline for having this out of the horse's system is 14 days, which I'm assuming was informed by veterinary advice.
Your suggested scenario for what happened is plausible, and actually what I've thought probably happened for some time. The fact that the amount present was the equivalent of an intra-articular injection from less than 72 hours before though is concerning. Even with variations in metabolism of the medication, this would argue that little care was taken to avoid this finding or that an extroardinarily large dose was given so that Medina Spirit could train.
Last edited by Sysonby; 09-15-2021 at 03:13 PM.
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