Was talking to a co-worker who was asking about the Sheikh. We were talking about camel racing, and how they use a mechanical remote controlled robot jockeys, and why they use them instead of human jockeys.

The conversation then turned to the reports of human trafficking and child labor, and the sh!t storm that scandal created when they were using 8 year old children to ride.

Then he asked me if he cheats in horse racing. I replied that it is complicated. He has had trainers who were caught doping, when Appleby was an assistant to that trainer, that his endurance horses have tested positive for banned substances, that there is a vet caught on FBI wiretaps talking about Dubai and a doping program.

Also that he owns a racetrack in Dubai, races on every continent, has farms & breeding operations in multiple continents, owns an auction house, and some of the best bloodstock in the world, and most of the finest farms in the world.

The problem I run into is say that he is doping, he uses multiple trainers, some who seem really reputable. And his horses seem to run for all of them.

In theory , if they do have some type of program, I suspect it to be some type of long term steroid being given at the farm.
This is just all speculation on my part, but if you own the best of everything any one man can desire, would you not also have a chemist?
Makes you wonder.