Racehorses test positive for “frog juice” – report
United States racing appears on the verge of a drugs scandal, later reports that to a greater extent than than xl racehorses convey tentatively tested positive for a core nicknamed “frog juice”.
The intelligence comes every bit the manufacture has been working difficult to counter growing world line of piece of occupation organization over drug role inwards the industry, as well as injuries amidst racehorses.
Racing government had heard rumours of the substance, supposedly drawn from the backs of South American frogs, for months, according to a New York Times report.
The Times reports that a Denver laboratory tweaked its testing as well as began to expire positive returns for dermorphin.
A professor of pharmacology at Oklahoma State University, Craig Stevens, said dermorphin would brand animals “hyper”.
“For a racehorse, it would travel beneficial. The animate existence wouldn’t experience pain, as well as it would convey feelings of excitation as well as euphoria.”
The paper reported that to a greater extent than than xl horses from 4 states convey tentatively tested positive for the core inwards recent weeks, amongst charges anticipated.
“We ask heed near unopen to pretty exotic stuff,” Dr Steven Barker, who directs the testing laboratory at Louisiana State University, told the Times. “Frog juice — this is exotic.”
Dermorphin is establish on the peel of a frog called Phyllomedusa sauvagei, native to South America.
Barker suspected the substances had been artificially synthesized, every bit “there’s a lot out there”.
It is understood the core has been establish inwards horses inwards Louisiana, Oklahoma as well as New Mexico. Its role is suspected inwards Texas, the Times said.
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