Re: Biancobra Barn Pharmacy (553 Views)
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Silver Charm (IP Logged)
Date: October 06, 2007 12:40PM
The Biancobra Pharmacy on the day of the raid included the following substances below. Biancobra is using the O.J. defense saying Mark Furman and Tom Vanatter planted all of the evidence. The [b]"trained by Bob Baffert" talking parrot[/b] will be on TV later today saying the enitre investigation is bogus and all of the substances below are standard training tools.
A dozen alleged violations
According to the KHRA ruling released yesterday, stewards found in a Sept. 27 hearing that Biancone had committed 12 violations.
They include possessing:
• Alpha-Cobratoxin and various other injectable medications such as rabies vaccine, some improperly labeled.
• An injectable solution labeled "Throat RX."
• An injectable bottle of an unknown brown honey-colored liquid marked "For Mythical Echo Only." According to BRISnet, Biancone has trained a 3-year-old Stravinsky filly named Mythical Echo, owned by Susan Magnier.
• Five injectable bottles of sodium bicarbonate 8.4 percent.
• Sixty injectable bottles of Polyglycan.
• Two cases of intravenous bags, with saline solution in one and lactated ringers solution in the other.
In the ruling, chief steward John Veitch and stewards Rick Leigh and Butch Becraft also found Biancone violated state regulations by failing to report Stewart's infractions.
The investigation's roots
The KHRA investigation began this spring after a Biancone-trained filly tested positive for prohibited substances at Churchill Downs.
That filly, L'Aziza, was found to have caffeine and theophylline, an asthma medication, in her system after winning a race on May 3.
KHRA Executive Director Lisa Underwood said she ordered Biancone's barns at Keeneland's training center searched before notifying him of the positive test.
KHRA investigators found the cobra venom and the other items on June 22.
Cobra venom is considered undetectable, and Underwood said that, to her knowledge, this is the first time a trainer has been charged with having it in the state.
Biancone served a 15-day suspension that ended Sept. 19 for the L'Aziza violation