http://www.nytimes.com/2013/10/26/sports/pigeon-racing-doping.html?nl=todaysheadlines&emc=edit_th_20131026&_r=0

toppled: Which pigeon trainers are having huge sheet move ups off their claims?

Al Caught Up: Nice factoid: Hirsch Jacobs got his start training racing pigeons. Can\'t remember if this is exactly correct, but I believe Buddy Jacobson was his nephew?

Al Caught Up: http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/vault/article/magazine/MAG1072721/6/index.htm

Topcat: TGJB Wrote:
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Shocked we didn\'t see a Drape byline on this gem.

BH: Direct participants in cock fighting have told me drugging with steroids and painkillers was/is? routine.

Years ago the blacksmith where I worked in Texas was a very active participant in the \'sport\'. He was routinely flown all over the world, Phillipines, Mexico and Central America,etc. with a group of his birds to fight. Wealthy patrons would pay all his expenses round trip. Crossing international boundaries with his birds was \'facilitated\' by his patrons.

The betting was astronomical.

Beau: That\'s sick!