Analysis: Horse racing and performance-enhancing drugs

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NEAL CONAN
Talk of the Nation (NPR)
05-05-2005
Analysis: Horse racing and performance-enhancing drugs

Host: NEAL CONAN
Time: 2:00-3:00 PM

NEAL CONAN, host:

This is TALK OF THE NATION. I'm Neal Conan in Washington.

It's not just baseball. Performing-enhancing drugs have been a problem in thoroughbred horse racing, a problem that many believe has now reached a crisis. A study last year at California's Del Mar Racetrack found that 10 horses out of a hundred tested positive for milkshakes. That's sodium bicarbonate, baking soda, that trainers pump into a horse's stomach on race day. The ...

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