At 12:02 PM 12/16/2004 -0700, Pat Calloway wrote:
>I'm curious about just WHAT substances were found and of course who was
>involved.
>
>We'll see - I'm sure it'll be in the news until the new year at least.

Ah, here's the story about who is involved in the medication raid.

http://www.azcentral.com/news/articles/1231horsenames31.html

<snippage> "...the department alleges Steven Barry Friedman possessed
prescription horse drugs and prescription horse drugs for sale, and sold
prescription drugs to licensees at the track."

"Allegations for others mostly included storage rooms, or tack rooms,
containing therapeutic prescription horse medications without a
prescription and therapeutic medications without prescription from a
department licensed veterinarian."

"Officials claim one, Pamela Eikleberry, had Sputolysin, a horse drug
unapproved by the federal Food and Drug Administration, and therefore
prohibited, in her vehicle at the track."

So doesn't sound like drug positives, just that they didn't have a
prescription for whatever they were using or that it wasn't approved by the
FDA. Which I don't believe applies to animals anyway.

From Doc Anderson: "Anderson, who supplied Eikleberry with his
therapeutic medications, said: "The state is making a mountain out of a
molehill." He doesn't believe any medications found were
performance-enhancing."

"Knowledgeable sources within the Turf Paradise racing industry believe
some trainers have purchased medications from one trainer for purely
economic reasons, buying the drugs cheaper than on the open market."

"One likened trainers' actions as no different than someone going to
Nogales, Sonora, to purchase drugs for other humans."


Well it's not unusual at all in Arizona for humans to buy prescription
medications down in Mexico because it's a helluva lot cheaper than getting
them in the US. Lots of seniors on a budget doing that.