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Essay on The Use of Performance Enhancers in Race Horses
Introduction
Horse racing is one of the most highly regulated sports there is, yet it seems to continually generate an aura of moral deprivation because of the continued controversy within the industry on the issue of medication. Perhaps we should undertake a serious review of our handling of these medication issues and follow that with a comprehensive retooling of our approach to regulation. One would hope that we could find a way to control medication that would prevent these repeated public embarrassments and at the same time protect the integrity of the sport and the well being of the horse.
While the use of drugs in sports is not a recent epidemic, in the last century the place of drugs in horse racing has undergone a dramatic transformation. The efficacy of many newly purified or synthesized drugs has greatly increased with scientific advancements in pharmaceutical research. Drugs such as amphetamines have been synthesized in labs and have allowed modern-day horses to readily enhance performance.
Results and Discussion
Under the controlled medication system that was initiated in horse racing some 25-30 years ago, a drug testing system was developed to both detect the presence of illegal drugs and monitor the administration of permitted medications. Over the course of time, regulatory bodies have continually pressured their chemists to advance their techniques to prevent any surreptitious use of drugs. The resulting continued refinement in forensic analysis has brought us to the point where extremely minute amounts of drugs (picogram or one-trillionth of a gram) can be detected within the urine and/or blood of horses. While this is seemingly ideal from the regulatory point of view, we have become painfully aware of the side effects of this policy.
One of the biggest controversies in horseracing is the use of medication in racing. Despite being....
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