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9-6-12 ρεπορτάζ του CNN για DOPING σε άλογα ιπποδρομιών
η Nancy Perry, εκπρόσωπος της American Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals ( ASPCA), δηλώνει πως τα άλογα ιπποδρομιών ντοπάρονται με ενέσεις κοκαΐνης, παυσίπονα και φάρμακα για τον καρκίνο που καταστέλλουν τον πόνο. Τραυματισμένα άλογα τρέχουν με ταχύτητα στην πίστα –χωρίς να νιώθουν πόνο- καταρρέουν και θανατώνονται.  Ντοπάρονται επίσης με ενέσεις από δηλητήριο φιδιού
Τα άλογα τρέχουν στους αγώνες για να σώσουν κυριολεκτικά, τη ζωή τους, αυτά που τρέχουν με μεγάλη ταχύτητα, καταρρέουν (εξουθενώνονται, τραυματίζονται και θανατώνονται) τα άλογα που δεν τρέχουν γρήγορα απορρίπτονται…και σφάζονται για το κρέας τους.9-6- 2012 Animal welfare activists: Horse racing industry needs reformBy Chuck Conder and Casey Wian, CNN"They are injecting cocaine. They are injecting cancer drugs into horses in order to mask pain," said Nancy Perry of the American Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals, or ASPCA. "They are even injecting snake venom."http://edition.cnn.com/2012/06/09/us/racehorse-treatment/index.html
γιατί τόσα άλογα καταρρέουν και θανατώνονται στους αγώνες?Ντοπαρισμένα άλογα με κοκαΐνη, δηλητήριο κόμπρας, Viagra, φάρμακα για βοοειδή και γουρούνια πριν από τη σφαγή κλπ.  τρέχουν στους αγώνες ιπποδρομίας και καταρρέουν
΄Αλογα τραυματισμένα που τους χορηγήθηκαν παυσίπονα φάρμακα για καρκινοπαθείς και έτσι δεν νιώθουν πόνο, τρέχουν στην πίστα, καταρρέουν και θανατώνονται.24-3-12 Mangled Horses, Maimed Jockeys Why racehorses break down at such a high rate has been debated for years, but the discussion inevitably comes back to drugs.
Laboratories cannot yet detect the newest performance-enhancing drugs, while trainers experiment with anything that might give them an edge, including chemicals that bulk up pigs and cattle before slaughter, cobra venom, Viagra, blood doping agents, stimulants and cancer drugs. Illegal doping, racing officials say, often occurs on private farms before horses are shipped to the track. Few states can legally test horses there.
“They are pharmacist shops,” said Dr. George Maylin, the longtime head of New York State’s testing laboratory. “Nobody has any control over what they are doing.”
Even so, legal therapeutic drugs — pain medicine in particular — pose the greatest risk to horse and rider.
At higher levels, pain medicine can mask injury, rendering prerace examinations less effective. If a horse cannot feel an existing injury, it may run harder than it otherwise would, putting extra stress on the injury. As many as 90 percent of horses that break down had pre-existing injuries, California researchers have found.
“This is just a recipe for disaster,” said Dr. Tom David, who until this year was chief veterinarian for the Louisiana Racing Commission. “Inflamed joints, muscles and mild lameness are masked by medication and therefore undetectable to the examining veterinarian.”
“It’s hard to watch these poor animals running for their lives for people who could really care less if they live,” said Dr. Margaret Ohlinger, a track veterinarian at Finger Lakes Casino and Racetrack in upstate New York.
Sometimes the same horse is illegally drugged twice. On May 9, 2009, Runawayslew, a horse trained by Andres Gonzalez, raced with two anti-inflammatory drugs. Nineteen days later, under another trainer, Runawayslew raced on cocaine.
In the United States, horses are usually allowed to run on some dose of pain medication, usually bute. The question, fiercely debated in the racing community, is at what level do therapeutic drugs make racing unsafe?
(the most frequently abused pain medicine in racing, phenylbutazone, a nonsteroidal anti-inflammatory commonly known as “bute.”)
Rebecca R. Ruiz and Matthew Orr contributed reporting from New York.http://www.nytimes.com/2012/03/25/us/death-and-disarray-at-americas-racetracks.html?ref=opinion
΄Αλογα που τραυματίζονται στις ιπποδρομίες, οδηγούνται στο σφαγείο…
Στεροειδή, παυσίπονα, αντιφλεγμονώδη και άλλα φάρμακα για τη βελτίωση της απόδοσης του αλόγου, εντοπίζονται σε ελέγχους που τα αποτελέσματά τους αποκρύπτονται.Horses to the Slaughter Published: March 26, 2012 Reporters who analyzed tens of thousands of races and combed through reports of injuries and medical tests found a culture of rampant cheating and feeble regulation, where injured and fragile horses are forced to run while drugged, to the great peril of both animals and jockeys.
The main reason is drugs — the stimulants, steroids, pain medications, anti-inflammatories and other chemicals used to enhance performance and mask injuries.
Much illegal doping takes place on private farms where horses can’t be tested. No single governing body or federal regulations control the industry’s drug practices, and existing punishments are lax.
So horses break down at alarming rates: 3,600 horses died while racing or training at state-regulated tracks in the last three years, The Times found. In Sunland Park in New Mexico 
Necropsy reports told of horses that had been running with debilitating ailments: stomach ulcers, degenerative joint diseases, pneumonia, metal screws from previous broken bones.
πηγήhttp://www.nytimes.com/2012/03/27/opinion/racehorses-to-the-slaughter.html?_r=1

θετικά τα αποτελέσματα στον έλεγχο των αλόγων για κοκαΐνη…μικρές ποσότητες χορηγούνται στα άλογα πριν από τον αγώνα σαν να είναι κύβοι ζάχαρης.12-8-2005   Cocaine in horse drug tests raises questions By Charles Wilson, The Associated Press
INDIANAPOLIS — Indiana racehorses have tested positive for cocaine, but how the drug got into their bodies is a matter of debate. A total of four horses tested positive for cocaine over the past two years, according to reports from the Indiana Horse Racing Commission, and some officials say that trend is continuing.
Jim Gallagher, president of the National Thoroughbred Racing Association in Lexington, Ky., said he had heard anecdotal stories of people injecting cocaine into a horse's joints to mask pain. Sojka said she had heard of people feeding a small amount of cocaine to a horse by hand, like a sugar cube, shortly before a race. http://www.usatoday.com/sports/horses/2005-12-08-cocaine_x.htm
διουρητικά φάρμακα όπως το Lasix χορηγούνται στα άλογα για να καλυφθούν τα ίχνη άλλων φαρμάκων ντοπαρίσματος στον έλεγχοON HORSE RACING; Cocaine Case Proves Testers Are Gaining By Steven Crist Published: February 28, 1989 in a baffling case that has shaken the American racing industry, cocaine has been found in the urine samples of some California race horses.
Trainers may not give cocaine to race horses, but some do use other performance-altering drugs. Fans in New York routinely watch trainers emerge from obscurity and suddenly effect implausible form reversals on horses they claim from other perfectly competent trainers. Fans elsewhere watch the majority of horses at their tracks run on Lasix, supposedly an anti-bleeding medication but better known and widely used - even by some Olympic weight lifters last year - as a diuretic to flush out traces of other illegal drugs.
πηγή
 http://www.nytimes.com/1989/02/28/sports/on-horse-racing-cocaine-case-proves-testers-are-gaining.html
αναβολικά, στεροειδή και συνδυασμός ηρωίνης με κοκαΐνη… διαταραχές συμπεριφοράς του αλόγου και εθισμός.
Doping, Drugging, and Steroids in the Horse Industry
The horse industry as a whole has seen a great increase in substances used on horses
The affects of the drugs can run from nothing at all to extreme behavioral changes, and sometimes to addiction
There are several medications that are the equivalent of Advil or Tylenol for horses. Three of the most common are Ketoprofen (Ketofen), Phenylbutazone (Bute), and Flunixin Meglumine (Banamine). In the world of hunter and jumper shows, these are used quite commonly, but there are limits to how much is allowed.
All these medications are extremely useful for treating minor pain and when given correctly, can help a horse to perform at one hundred percent. However, one combination that has been seen at shows is the combination of Bute and Banamine. It is an illegal combination due to the masking effect it possesses.
For example, if a horse is at a pain level of five out of ten, the Bute or Banamine alone could take it down possibly to a three. But the combination of the two could take it to a level one or even to where the horse feels no pain at all.
The United States Equestrian Federation (USEF) allows some medications such as Bute, Banamine, and Ketofen in certain concentrations in the horse’s bloodstream, but any overstepping of the boundaries or use of unapproved drugs can bring on consequences.
Another problem in the horse industry includes the use of anabolic and androgenic steroids (ABS and ANS), mostly seen in racehorses. Although the steroids are commonly used for their “therapeutic benefits,” the abuse and the side effects of them are raising questions
The effects of the steroids exceed what would occur under normal circumstances. Geldings exhibit more aggressive and pronounced stallion-like behavior than that of stallions naturally, and given to any horse, it becomes dangerous. A trainer or handler is put at higher risk for injury when near a horse on the steroids because the horse becomes unpredictable. McDonnell states that a horse on ABS, “Often [has] more of a sour disposition… They overreact to things… One day it’s fine to pick up their feet and the next day they violently object” (qtd. in DVM Magazine).
There are many speculations about the use of cocaine in racehorses as well as jumpers in higher-level shows. It is thought that the cocaine makes them faster, jump higher, and react more sensitively than normal so they will not pull down a rail. There are several risks involved when injecting cocaine into a horse’s bloodstream, which are parallel to when a human uses it. As Craig Neff explains, “Some… trainers juiced up their horses with prerace ‘speedballs,’potent mixtures of heroin and cocaine that supposedly made the horses run faster… there aren’t many drugs that haven’t been tried on a horse at least once by some trainer looking for an edge.”
http://ansleytatum.hubpages.com/hub/Doping-Drugging-and-Steroids-in-the-Horse-Industry
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