Seriously.

[TGJB]

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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> http://www.nytimes.com/2013/10/26/sports/pigeon-ra
> cing-doping.html?nl=todaysheadlines&emc=edit_th_20
> 131026&_r=0


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!