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Originally Posted by docicu3
It's more likely that we don't know what he actually has or had planned to give his horses.
I would not have come to this conclusion until reading that he planned that both horses would get the same OTC medication.
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Wouldn't they confiscate it and test it later? I sure hope so.
To go off on a boxing scandel rant ...
The great trainer Panama Lewis got in no trouble in an 80's fight when the tv camera caught him yelling "not that bottle, the special one I mixed" when Aaron 'The Hawk' Pryor was given his water in his corner at the end of a round in a fight he was struggling in.
After he drank from the requested special water bottle .. he rallied with total ferocity and KO'd Alexis Arguello.
I guess a lot of people brushed it aside .. saying the great Pyror never needed to cheat and all.
The very next year - one of Panama's more light punching fighters beat an undefeated young fighter to a pulp. When the trainer of the young fighter went to shake the hand of Panama's fighter afterwards ... he felt that the padding had been cut out of the glove and went crazy to get the attention of the state commision.
Turns out - not only had the padding been cut away .. but Panama's fighter also had his hand wrap soaked in plaster. The young fighter suffered career ending injuries and committed suicide less than a year later.
Had Panama Lewis been punished and had more than just his reputation slightly hurt from the water bottle incident .. it makes you wonder if he wouldn't have been cheating so brazenly again so soon after getting in no trouble.