<BLOCKQUOTE class=“ip-ubbcode-quote”><font size="-1">quote:</font><HR>Originally posted by Two Toofs:
To me, it’s not “hard stuff”, it’s just the way it is and I guess because that’s how I’ve been brought up, it’s no big deal.<HR></BLOCKQUOTE>
Since equipoise is an anabolic steroid (with all the connotations of THAT particular substance!), we will probably have to agree to disagree on which is worse - a performance enhancing, liver destroying steroid or glorified ibuprofin.
Poltroon, per my FEI comment about pentox being allowed, remember that drugs are allowed to be given to the animal in the course of its existance, it is just that the withdrawal time is longer to make sure that the drug has no effect on the horse (performance enhancing or otherwise). But pentox is one of those long acting drugs, so who knows what the story is on how you test for it? I mean if I administer it for 6 weeks, it is my understanding that it lasts for 6 months.
As for that FEI testing, yea, a herd of folks got busted for using a commonly used European herbal that was even labeled “FEI approved”. Not that it was approved, but that obviously whatever testing process they use over there didn’t turn it up. Meanwhile here it tested as reserpine, reserpine-like or not reserpine, depending on the lab in question. So I would say there is a leetle bit of discrepancy between Europe and the US!
“I used to care, but things have changed…” Bob Dylan