Per Steve Crist, this is Dutrow’s “rap sheet”
http://cristblog.drf.com/crist/2008/06/bad-rap-sheet.html#comments
With respect to Clenbuterol (which is a bronchodialator) he has the following overages:
April 3, 2004 --NY
June 23, 2008–KY
The bulk of his medication positives are for excess Bute and Lasix and most are in the $200 range. There is a “forbidden injectable vitamin” in 2000 which is probably less the vitamin solution but more the syringe that came with it because only vets are supposed to have those on the backstretch. There’s a lot of silly stuff like failing to have the owner’s colors in 2001 and sadder stuff like marijuana positives, bad checks, using someone else’s urine in a human drug test, getting into altercations and “failure to conduct business in a proper manner” which could mean anything through 2003.
In my book, the big kahuna is the mepivicaine positive followed by the hanky panky in Ontario about the workout. A lot of the rest of it with the exception of the human drug problems is kind of the racing equivalent to parking tickets. Overages happen because horses have different metabolisms, jurisdictions have different levels and people plain screw up.
