> The "trained by Bob Baffert" talking parrot will be on
> TV later today saying the enitre investigation is
> bogus and all of the substances below are standard
> training tools.

Most of them are. They are worried and now choosing to fight this publically in the media, a change from their previous methods when they thought it could go away. There is no reason not for this to stick that I can see.

>>> • Alpha-Cobratoxin and various other injectable
> medications such as rabies vaccine, some
> improperly labeled.

He had vaccinations for cats (probably barn cats), and some immunizations for horses (tetanus, flu, rabies). Also had some common medications (antifungals, antiprotazoals, etc) used for routine horse health.

Race track rules are clear: any bottle of medication in a barn must have a legal, complete pharmacy label on it, including a particular patients name. Veterinarians must administer certain meds, and keep records of such administration.

Not having bottles or vials labeled as such is unfortunately common in large animal medicine, and in most barns, where most have at least a bottle of bute and a vial of banamine present for general use, and all the unused meds from previous patients hanging around.

It's a rare barn that wouldn't have this labeling violation.

The cobra venom - uh, nope. Prohibited on the premises, zero pharmacologic use in the horse.

>>> • An injectable solution labeled "Throat RX."

Who knows? Could be a bronchodilator, etc.

> • An injectable bottle of an unknown brown
> honey-colored liquid marked "For Mythical Echo
> Only."

A mystery indeed, many injectables are brownish in color.

> • Five injectable bottles of sodium bicarbonate
> 8.4 percent.

Couple of uses for this (including being used as a diluent to take the acidic "sting" out of giving a cobra venom injection)

>>> • Sixty injectable bottles of Polyglycan.

Common and good injectable for joint health. No big deal.

> • Two cases of intravenous bags, with saline
> solution in one and lactated ringers solution in
> the other.

Both are standard IV fluids, saline commonly used to dilute medications prior to injection IV.

> That filly, L'Aziza, was found to have caffeine
> and theophylline, an asthma medication, in her
> system after winning a race on May 3.

Theophylline is commonly prescribed as a bronchodilator.

It's not what you have, it's how you use it, in what amount, and when.

Except for the cobra venom <g>