Just saw on ESPN there was a massive bust in horse racing more than 2 dozen trainers from multiple countries involved.
LRC note: we have updated the title of this thread to reflect it is about horse racing and that the people involved were criminally charged. Here is an article on it. https://www.si.com/horse-racing/2020/03/09/trainers-veterinarians-charged-doping-horses-racing
Massive doping bust in horse racing- people criminally charged
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Why would a jockey dope?
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Breaking news:
The letsrun crowd is switching to horse racing! -
used to be gravy wrote:
Why would a jockey dope?
Diet pills to loss weight so the horses don’t carry as much weight? -
Black Beauty wrote:
Breaking news:
The letsrun crowd is switching to horse racing!
There both on a track I guess -
I always knew it was BS that horses are just "naturally" faster than humans!
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Hardloper wrote:
I always knew it was BS that horses are just "naturally" faster than humans!
Only over short distances. See, e.g., the history of the Western States 100. -
Horse Racing: Dog Fighting for White People
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And this whole time, I thought the fast times they were running were due to the (horse) shoes!!
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I was surprised the Kenyans weren't involved for once.
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There is a trend of horses going to east africa to train.
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Where can i git me some?
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Horses have teeth like Brits, therefore this PROVES ALL BRITS ARE DIRTY!!!!
Anyone who disagrees is clearly a racist. -
We all knew that the MASSIVE bust would never be in Track and Field!
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were they wearing alpha horsefly next%
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According to the indictment, one of the drugs used was EPO!
Okay...enough is enough - these horses need to be put on the biological passport & monitored!
https://www.cnn.com/2020/03/09/us/racehorse-doping-indictments/index.html -
ATLien wrote:
Hardloper wrote:
I always knew it was BS that horses are just "naturally" faster than humans!
Only over short distances. See, e.g., the history of the Western States 100.
Yeah, horses can't rock climb. The actual 100 mile record for a horse is nearly twice as fast as the human record.
Horses are just better at every distance. -
ATLien wrote:
Hardloper wrote:
I always knew it was BS that horses are just "naturally" faster than humans!
Only over short distances. See, e.g., the history of the Western States 100.
100 km race with the first 40 km loop at 25 km/h
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So criminal charged were brought here because of the betting involved or the mislabeling of medications?
Is that why it can be done with track and field?
