Bit of a dampener for the connections of Fagins Lad after he saluted at $65 for his first win in 63 attempts, scoring at Bulli on Linden Huntley Little Finals night.
Am wondering if this has been detected in the past and if so how on earth is it administered to a horse. If it has been found before, has there been a defence case mounted for environmental exposure to a connection who may have been using the medication in close proximity to the animal?
Even so, as I am quickly learning, that will be neither here nor, with the onus being on the trainer to present the horse to the races free of any type of therapeutic or other type of substance in its system.
http://www.harnesslink.com/www/Article.cgi?ID=97043
Use of Salbutamol is not a rarity. I have known of several instances.
Common treatment for "Asthmatic " horses.
Administered by..you guessed it...nebuliser.
Whether you can call it therapeutic or whether horses who need it should be racing anyway is open to many viewpoints I guess.
Possibly the connections have beltedly found why the horse hasn't won previously but their timing in this instance was astray.
It's just Albuterol by another name (more commonly known as good old reliable & extremely effective Ventolin) and along with its obvious commonplace use in humans to treat athsma it is widely used to treat horses that have similar/allergic conditions.
Now here's the hook....this is an extremely safe & easy to administer drug that was first launched onto the market in the year of my birth, some 43+ years ago, and since then there have been numerous clincal studies carried out in both equines & humans all of which have repeatedly shown absolutely no evidence whatsoever that Salbutamol/Albuterol/Ventolin and numerous other beta 2 agonists have any performance increasing properties whatsoever....be it in horse or human.
Why it is in this day and age that Horse Trainers can still fall foul of using such substances is beyond me.
Yet again this is stark evidence of the desperate need to research, compile & institute a list of therapeutic substances with thresholds for each.
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