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Originally Posted by Kasept
20 picograms.
20 ten trillions of a gram.
20/10,000,000,000,000.
You're an attorney. You'd have a field day with this. It's so obviously a residue contamination that it would be laughable if it didn't involve someone's career and reputation.
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I absolutely would have a field day with it. What troubles me is the claim that it must have been caused by contamination. It seems to be the new defense to claim that not only that you are innocent, but a victim as well. It smells like BS likely because it is.
There is no excuse for a stimulant such as meth to be in a horse. Further, there is particularly no excuse to have injectable medications, syringes, needles and oral medications not properly labeled. As the handling and labeling of these objects is clear in this day and age any trainer would have to be either cheating having these lying around or just plain damn stupid.
I know if I was representing a trainer I would make sure they would not say anything stupid like it must have been caused by contamination, rather, I would hire an expert to figure out the chances of that happening, formulate a solid defense and make statements based upon verifiable facts instead of blaming a straw man which only leads to those justifiably poking fun at the excuse.
I hope he is innocent of the charges because I like Gorder as a trainer and find this crap disturbing. But I also think it is fair for people to have their doubts when there was a finding against him after which he had the opportunity to present a defense (and I know that administrative hearings can be a joke, but you can always at some point get it into a real court and present a viable defense whereby you can make a statement as to what your defense is and that it will vindicate the client in a court of law), is coming off his two best years as a trainer, has unlabeled items in the barn and has a drug in a horse's system that has zero justification for being in a horse's blood at any levels.