George Lambton -- made no secret of doping his horses in a demonstration to stewards

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I love that article. Especially the bit about how doping will ruin the breed. Nothing new under the sun.

Illegal doping is synonymous with sports. How long did Lance Armstrong get away with it? Hell, if he hadn't been such a d*ck of a human being (according to very entertaining articles I've read; I do not know the man personally) he'd still have those jerseys. And Congress spent a lot of taxpayer money over hearings about steroids in baseball.

I'd be really curious to see a comparison of how many legal medications/supplements a professional athlete (of a fairly grueling sport) regularly ingests, compared with a racehorse. It'd be impossible to do an exact comparison, obviously, but with all the shrieking in the press about hay, oats and water, I wonder how many professional athletes get by with three squares and a multivitamin.

I'm not defending medication use, per se, but the nature of athletics is pushing a living creature, whether human or animal, past what that body would do normally. A body is going to get sore and injured doing it.