Interesting stuff going on in Kentucky and Virginia (that one\'s in the DRF Wed.
http://news.bloodhorse.com/viewstory.asp?id=27276
Wow did I read that correctly, 1095 day suspension for first offense of a Class A drug. Jerry, might times be-a-changing???
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Yeah, 3 years. Don\'t know whether that\'s a great idea-- if someone\'s doing it once they\'ll do it more than once, so if you are freezing samples you\'ll get a bunch of positives, and the chance for a screwup or sabotage will make things pretty hairy. Meanwhile, the part that interested me was the \"perjury\" stuff, which is a different slant on the \"filling out a form\" I wrote about in my DRF letter. It was based on Charlie Harris\' idea of copying the Sarbanes-Oxley laws, and it looks like someone else is thinking the same way.
This does look like it has some bite to it.
However, hopefully whenever it comes time to take a bite out of some cheater they are not like a set of dentures.
We will see.
It\'s a Revolution, as a Horse Player, I\'ll take what it gives me.
\"Kentucky also is looking at penalties for people who have in their possession \"blood-gas\" machines used to test for milkshakes, or shock-wave machines. Merely having a blood-gas testing device in one\'s possession would bring a $5,000 fine and 90-day suspension on a first offense; for a shock-wave device, the first offense would bring a $1,000 fine and 30-day suspension.\"
Didn\'t Jeff Mullins say in one of the articles when he first got the positive for the TCO2 levels that according to \"his tests\" the horse was not over the limits?
Looks like he must have one of those blood-gas machines, or black box as it is referred to later in the article.
In addition, last year Mullins had to remove his \"shock-wave\" device from the stable area per then General Manager Chris McCarron\'s mandate.
Talk about a poster boy...!