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The smart people would have simply sold their cars, paid the taxes, and pocket the rest of the money.
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In other words, there was a ton of horseshit but no horse in the now-infamous Joe Drape article insinuating that Triple Crown winner Justify had an "unfair advantage" because his hay or straw had way too much jimson weed, which contains a banned substance in California. Drape's innuendo, though, wasn't about the hay or straw but about Baffert supposedly injecting this substance into Justify, and he had the entire racing industry in California covering his wrongdoing up.
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Arthur said there was one other horse who surpassed the scopolamine threshold and a number of other horses who showed some level of the substance in their systems after racing at Santa Anita Park that weekend, April 6-8, 2018. He also noted that when the positive is associated with jimson weed, as opposed to an administration of Buscopan, the lab indicates positives for both scopolamine and atropine, which was the case with Justify and five other horses that weekend. Finally, he noted that the level of scopolamine that showed up in Justify's blood test was much lower than what came back in his urine test, which he said was another factor indicating contamination.
"Scopolamine is a toxin in jimsonweed. It comes along with atropine, which is what we saw in a number of these cases as well," Arthur said. "Buscopan can be easily differentiated in the laboratory (from jimsonwood contamination) as only scopolamine or atropine is detected—not both. The reality of it is that six of these horses have both scopolamine and atropine in their systems. So they have two different plant alkaloids that are typically found together with jimson weed poisoning."
In other words, there is NO scandal.
Joe Drape must have received an apprenticeship from the now-retired colleague Jeff Gerth.
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Cripple Crown: At least Mike Pence didn't blame American Pharoah's former trainer Bob Baffert for his arm getting bit early last year.
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Brat Kavanaugh has yet another allegation against him.
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Good grief. Apparently both parents are now in ICU.
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