Word: butazolidin
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...probably be the favorite. He has the astounding record of having been on the board in his, last eleven races, all stake races. Recently he won the California Derby and looked awfully strong winning, but do not jump to any conclusions. In California horses are allowed to run on butazolidin. No such luck in Kentucky...
...Pain-killing drugs are a different story. The disqualification of Dancer's Image from first place to last in the 1968 Kentucky Derby caused a controversy still unsettled in the courts. Was Dancer's Image given butazolidin within the forbidden pre- race period? Peter Fuller and company argued that the test was inconclusive and the competence of the chemist was suspect. The State Racing Commission argued that the test was adequate and that if the stable hands were not guilty of administering the pain-killing drug to the horse, they were at least guilty of negligence in the care...
...Kentucky Derby- the "drugstore Derby"- Venetian Way beat Bally Ache. Venetian Way was a sore horse who responded admirably to butazolidin, legal in Kentucky at the time. When Venetian Way ran in the Preakness two weeks later without the help of butazolidin (pain-killing drugs are not legal in Maryland), he did not even finish in the money while the sound- legged Bally Ache won. The performance of Venetian Way with and without butazolidin and other similar cases convinced the Kentucky State Racing Commission that drugs were unfair to the horse and to the public...
...Unlike stimulants or tranquilizers, butazolidin does not change the energy level of the horse, but rather makes the animal extremely insensitive to any pain. Though a thoroughbred weighs close to 1000 pounds and runs faster than thirty- five miles-an-hour, he has lower legs that are thinner than your ankles. Most thoroughbreds have sore legs. With butazolidin or some other pain-killer a horse cannot feel anything in his leg. Unable to feel that his unsound leg is about to break, he will run until his leg gives way and he falls. Every-time a horse goes lame...
...that appeal fails, Fuller & Co. can then take their case to the courts (possibly all the way to the U.S. Supreme Court), where anything could happen. Dancer's Image could even win the Kentucky Derby after all. Last October, an appellate court in Ohio ruled that Butazolidin could not be regarded as an illegal drug-because it had not been proved to affect a horse's performance in a race...