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Six racehorses from a Burlington County farm have tested positive for a performance-enhancing drug under the state’s newly expanded drug-testing rules, the state attorney general’s office announced today.

The horses were from Winner’s International Farm in Chesterfield, Burlington County. They tested positive for erythropoietin, which can enhance a horse’s oxygen consumption during races, but can also lead to heart attack or stroke during intense exercise.

Horses, drugs… really, this has it all. I like how the side-effects of the drugs are listed. Oh, no, you might hurt the horsies while you race them around and around and possibly to their deaths!

6 racehorses fail drug tests at Burlington Co. farm [Philly.com]
 
dmac | 9:27 PM | 2 Comments
Drugs, Horses, Possible Side-Effects, Synergy
 
  1. di1 Says: May 7 3:00 AM

    Wait, why do they say “intense exercise”. Just come out and say, “Yeah, this drug could make you win millions or make thousands of people, that don’t have nearly as many thousands of dollars bet on this horse as you do, upset.”

  2. Superfecta Says: May 7 8:37 AM

    Which is yet another we we all look lame to the rest of the world…only the US and some of Canada allows any sort of drugs in horses on race-days - bear in mind these are drugs even beyond that scope!

    Sigh.

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