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By Capitol Report New Mexico
Race officials have suspected that some trainers had been drugging race horses but the substance – called dermorphin — could not be detected in most post-race tests.
In one of the weirdest stories of late, the New York Times published a story Tuesday disclosing that race horses in as many as four states — including New Mexico — have been found to have traces of a “powerful performance-enhancing potion drawn from the backs of a type of South American frog.”
Huh?
It turns out that the frog can produce a painkiller more powerful than morphine. According to the Times article, officials have suspected that some trainers had been drugging race horses but the substance – called dermorphin — could not be detected in most post-race tests. But that changed when a laboratory in near Denver changed its procedures and, as a result, more than 40 horses came back with tentative positive tests.
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