We'll all have to wait and see what the reserve sample result is, however,as I've said before most of these top horses are performance enhanced. They cannot go around week after week putting in gut busting runs just on good feed programs, that's why these stables have top vets looking after them. With administration of drugs there is no room for slip-ups. You may get away with it nine times out of ten but one miscalculation and your busted. If it's proven to be nothing amiss with the analytical program and another positive is the result then game up - your nabbed.
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Originally Posted by Mighty Atom
So a trainer races his horse every 7 days, he comes home from the race and gives his horse injectable bute (6 day withdrawal). He gets tested his next start (7 days later) and nothing comes up, because THERE IS NOTHING IN HIS SYSTEM. So these trainers, who follow withdrawal periods, are using "performance enhancing drugs"? Just because a stable gets a vet out weekly, or whatever, even daily, does not mean they are racing their horses on performance enhancing drugs! If it's not in their system raceday, how can it be performance enhancing? Following withdrawal periods is not "trying to prevent a slip-up" (ie somehow trying to gain an edge in the horse's following race). Horses CAN race week in week out, even having hard runs everytime out, without any help. You just don't do much with them in between races to keep them fresh. 
There is a difference between therapeutic and performance enhancing drugs. 