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Posted on Saturday, June 21st, 2008
The late filly Eight Belles’s trainer, Larry Jones, claims a recent failed drug test by one of his colts was sabotage.
The New York Times reported in Saturday’s editions that horse trainer Larry Jones and breeder Jim Squires, both prominent critics of the use of drugs in horse racing, were notified early this week that Stones River had tested positive for illegal levels of clenbuterol, a bronchodilator that helps burn fat and promote muscle growth, after a race at Delaware Park this month.
“I guess we’re not the most popular people at Delaware,” horse trainer Larry Jones told the Times. “I have gotten so much hate mail after Eight Belles. I’ve been on the public record against drugs forever, as has Jim. It looks pretty obvious to me that we’ve been targeted.”
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