War On Drugs? Part II of A Painful Truth

Coronado Heights's career spanned six weeks and three races, but during the last 25 days of his life, he received 24 separate injections of nine different drugs, despite the fact that his veterinarian said he had no history of lameness. While the 21 catastrophic breakdowns at Aqueduct that winter have resulted in some changes in the medication rules in New York, part II of A Painful Truth looks at the hodgepodge of rules in racing jurisdictions across the U.S. and their vastly different penalties for chronic rule-breakers.

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