Horse Doping: Steroid action shows only way to stop drugs is frequency of testing

Greg Wood

• The Guardian, Sunday 2 March 2014 16.07

It seems a common feature of the increasing number of stories and scandals involving anabolic steroids in racing that we are asked to believe some fairly extraordinary things.
That Mahmood al-Zarooni acted alone, for instance. That experienced vets using a new product called Sungate in a racing yard did not read the label first. Or, more recently, that the Irish Turf Club remained blissfully unaware for a little more than two years that investigators from Ireland's Ministry of Agriculture believed they had found powerful anabolic agents during a raid on a leading stable in January 2012.

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