No, it is not acceptable.
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There isn’t a test for it. Sometimes it yields a positive dex result.
It said not in America…are you sure about elsewhere?
One of the issues with blood protein products (or deproteinized fitrated blood products as for humans) is that there’s nothing to test for. There’s no one active ingredient. There might be 100+ bioactive components. You would need to have some kind of marker to test for its presence.
If there’s something else tossed in to the mix, like a steroid or other banned substance, you could detect that.
In that case, you’d have all your supplements tested to see if anything was contaminated.
From the racing forum;
- And lastly, my favorite gem from the indictments concerning Surick in NJ who had faced a ban that was somehow miraculously lifted a couple years ago with no explanation.
“In Dec 2018, NJRC officials returned to Suricks barn to conduct another unannounced test of Surick’s racehorses, including Northern Virgin. Surick again coordinated with others, including Christopher Marino, the defendant, to conceal Northern Virgin from NJRC officials, and caused others to transport the racehorse to a different NJ farm. Surick also enlisted others to lie to NJRC officials by claiming that Northern Virgin was never housed in Surick’s barn, had never been trained by Surick, and in fact had been previously shipped to Ohio. Surick in fact arranged to ship Northern Virgin to a trainer in Ohio on or about Dec 18, 2018. The FBI identified the barn at which Surick had hidden Northern Virgin before it was shipped to Ohio, entered the barn, and collected a blood sample from Northern Virgin. The sample later tested positive for the presence of erythropoietin.”
So the erythropoietin tests…
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There’s been a test for EPO for some time. More here from WADA. https://www.wada-ama.org/en/questions-answers/epo-detection
It’s also been used in horses for some time now. There have been other positives.
It is a bit scary though because EPO increases the amount of oxygen your blood can carry. The increase in red cells makes your blood more viscous and therefore difficult for your heart to pump. This is thought to have caused the death of a number of overambitious cyclists.
Horses have a spleen that can release lots of red blood cells very quickly so you’d think thickening blood would be a possible cause of cardiac malfunction or arrest.
Another unwanted side effect of EPO is that it causes cancer cells to multiply rapidly. Hello, Lance Armstrong.
Also in humans, there’s no ‘somebody-put-something-in-my-drink’ or ‘contaminated supplements’ with an EPO drug positive. It’s injection only so it’s a method that contravenes the rules. Not sure how that works in racing rules.
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If there is a positive dex test then the horse and trainer should be set down. Period. It doesn’t matter who is at fault. Stop blaming everybody else. As I stated this entire company is a SHAM OPERATION intended to create ways to cheat, just like Florida Gold.
Riders/trainers need to pay the price for not being educated for what they choose to use in their horses. It isn’t difficult. Just because something is “natural” does NOT mean it is beneficial nor effective. The human clinical literature shows that this stuff is actually crap.
Any vet who actually understands medicine and biology would know better than to have trusted this company. And they sure as hell would have done due diligence in the products before prescribing.
There is a reason the FBI was involved and it isn’t just about racing.
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Agree with Reid. And yeah, my opinion of Kevin Keane has gone way down after this. I mean WOW.
https://tailormadecompounding.com/quality-control/
Here is the website for the lab that MediVet “works with…” Contact address is same as that for MediVet. If the copy on this website, especially the QA page, doesn’t spell amateur/bs, then I don’t know what does.
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This is interesting. This is a website for the other, Australian-affiliated MediVet - MediVet Biologics - also based in Nicholasville KY.
http://medivetbiologics.com/about-us/
They’ve posted a notice: ‘
[B]MediVet Biologics Notice 3/11/2020
“Recently, several individuals were indicted in connection with the use of performance enhancing drugs in the horse racing industry. Certain media outlets have referred to “MediVet Equine” (or in some cases, just “MediVet”) in their reporting on these matters.[/B]
Unfortunately, this has caused some confusion, as MediVet Biologics has a similar name to MediVet Equine, and both companies are sometimes simply referred to as “MediVet.”
To be clear, MediVet Biologics is not involved in the manufacture or provision of performance enhancing drugs, and is not owned or controlled by any of the individuals under indictment.”
So you have MediVet Equine and MediVet Biologics, both based in Nicholasville, KY (about 2 miles apart).
Both manufacture and distribute regenerative medicine products for equines.
MediVet Equine was involved in doping scandal.
I’m reminded of how the Baader-Meinhof Group was so successful at stealing cars with their practice of ‘mirroring’ vehicles. And then I’m also reminded of how the disgraced doctor from British Cycling was ordering (illegal) testosterone patches from an outfit that had the name of a legit physio equipment company and was not licensed to sell drugs/testosterone.
There’s also the matter of the legit racing concern Taylor Made and the less-than-legit compounding entity Tailor Made.
People are capable of elaborate set-ups when they want to escape detection.
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Suddenly Medivet Equine is changing their website. Too late.
Just know that part of their “team” has been indicted.
https://www.justice.gov/usao-sdny/press-release/file/1256656/download
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I wonder if you can still order from them.
Actually, the second the indictment was released, you can bet there were all sorts of inquiries for their products.
(In human PEDs, a lot of au courant substances (SARMs,mostly) are things that were developed/tested by legit pharma but did not progress through trials because the side effects were too risky. People on the hunt for non-testing PEDs actually go through the clinical records to find these things so they can synthesize and sell illegally.)
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Autologous-Conditioned Serum (ACS) is a similar process to IRAP or PRP, and there are legitimate uses for it. I know of several vet schools and legitimate (non-racing or eventing affiliated) veterinarians who use it as a more affordable alternative to IRAP for some injuries and joint issues, NOT systemic use. Theoretically speaking, it is not something you can “dope” when you are actually using it correctly. AFAIK, there are facilities other than MediVet offering ACS. Considering the source, however, I would not doubt that they were doing something funky.
This is an entirely separate injection than the SGF-1000, which is what the drugging ring appears to have been using. That’s not to say that the ACS wasn’t also tampered with and questionable–I would not be shocked at all to learn that it was just another product being used to obfuscate and hide doping.
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Based on the identical website layouts, similar offerings (Medivet Biologics has a page about ACS in equines, including pics of racehorses! http://medivetbiologics.com/home/pet-owners/bio-solutions/pet-acs/), and location, this is either an excellent scam on the part of Medivet Equine, or both companies are somehow related. I have a hard time believing that Medivet Biologics simply allowed such a rampant ripoff of their brand to continue unfettered for apparently years?
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IRAP and PRP are two completely different things. ACS in humans has been shown to have no significant effect. The same is true for PRP.
I worked on the original discoveries of IRAP in the 1990s. There still is no clinical study to show significant effect in mitigating a disease.
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I didn’t say I liked it or used it–only that I know of folks who do, based on several discussions with vets at UC Davis. I understand that while IRAP and PRP are completely separate and different things, they are both produced from the horse’s blood using different methods. ACS is also produced from the horse’s blood. My apologies for using the words “similar process,” as perhaps that implies they are more similar than they are.
University of Florida page discussing the stuff, also mentioning IRAP and PRP: https://largeanimal.vethospitals.ufl…/irap-therapy/
Not condoning it, promoting it, or otherwise saying it’s good. Just that the use of ACS in and of itself is not necessarily doping.
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Bold is mine. Well those are the rubs aren’t they? So much of “education” any more is about knowing the right answer, not critical thought, evaluation or comprehension. Due diligence is a foreign concept and someone else’s job. “I’m a doctor (& can maybe follow the directions on the label). That sounds like lawyer stuff”
The website now just says “In light of recent events, we have ceased operations.”
You don’t say. :lol:
The Boyd Martin page is still there, though.
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And MediVet Equine uses the same office space that Tailer Made Compounding used but states that they have/had nothing to do with each other lol
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