Interesting,

Vicks and robitussin

Bronchodialators is my guess.

There will always be those that cheat and while doing so consider themselves "horsemen".

In Florida Frank Passero use to come down from Canada and "train" lights out at Gulfstream. They caught his help rubbing pepper ointment on the genitals of his entries pre race. He faded off into the sunset and Sneeky Peek stepped into his shoes and is on a training title run there.

Of course, Passero had the best horses and best help though.


BitPlayer Wrote:
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> This may be ho hum to those of you with more
> knowledge of the backstretch than I have, but I
> found the following paragraphs from Tuesday's San
> Diego Union-Tribune interesting:
>
> Trainer Michael Machowsky has withdrawn his
> protest of Friday's $107,200 Real Good Deal Stakes
> race after initially alleging that at least one
> other horse besides his own had received
> impermissible therapeutic medication before the
> race.
>
> Machowsky's horse, Earnednevergiven, was scratched
> from the race after it was caught being
> administered a cough medicine – a rules violation
> on race day. Machowsky protested Saturday with a
> letter that stated, “I was required to scratch my
> horse, while others were allowed to race and earn
> purse money.”
>
> He said they were allowed to be medicated before
> the race with Vicks VapoRub and similar
> medication.
>
> http://www.signonsandiego.com/uniontrib/20070814/n
> ews_1s14delmar.html