Mepivocaine (sp?) (1213 Views)
Posted by:
richiebee (IP Logged)
Date: September 29, 2006 07:37AM
DRF reports trainer Mullins has a positive for mepivocaine (sp?), joining R. Dutrow (suspension, NY, 30 days), Asmussen (suspension, LA., 6 months), Pletcher (suspension appealed). All of the above suspensions involved mepivocaine.
Even sincere anti- drug proponents (TGJB) and those whose sincerity I have voiced skepticism about (Barry Irwin) have repeatedly contended that mepivocaine is NOT a performance enhancing drug.
But it keeps turning up in the blood samples of the runners of the usual suspects.
Not performance enhancing, but possibly a masking agent?