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Article: Only Way to Stop Endorphin Use: Guard the Barn
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- The Washington Post
- Article date:
- August 25, 1987
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After racing officials here received a tip that Alysheba would be
treated with an illegal drug before Saturday's Travers, reports of
the incident put into headlines a word that has been whispered around
American racetracks for years: endorphins.
The New Jersey state police had passed the information about
Alysheba to Saratoga's stewards, who ordered the colt's barn guarded
Saturday afternoon. Naturally, nothing happened. Nobody was going
to be wielding a hypodermic needle near the favorite under the
circumstances.
But the report had credibility, partly because the New Jersey
police have proved to be astute investigators of the sport, and
partly because the substance they said would be ...