O'Neill and anabolic steroids... (1025 Views)
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JohnTChance (IP Logged)
Date: December 09, 2005 04:26PM
In Saturday's Racing Form, columnist Jay Hovdey mentions that trainer Doug O'Neill's WHILLY was withdrawn from consideration for Sunday's $2.3 million Hong Kong Cup because the animal tested positive for an anabolic steroid. [O'Neill said WHILLY was given a "routine" dose of the steroid (for therapeutic purposes of course) and that it was "just bad timing."] Hovdey goes on to recall the Hong Kong Jockey Club's embarrassment in 1996, when they invited DA HOSS to run in the big race there, but the Breeder's Cup winner failed the steroid ban and was sent home.
Does anyone in his right mind think that STEVIE WONDERBOY, O'Neill's Breeder's Cup Juvenille winner, who zoomed to a preposterous -1 ThoroGraph to win that race, was NOT injected? That his big move forward that day was provoked by the colt's "natural development" only?
JohnTChance