Article on doping in Florida--Kirk Ziadie gets a nice mention

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http://www.sun-sentinel.com/fl-horse...677,full.story

Embarrassing:

Among the laws the division can't touch is one requiring the use of a technology for the detection of certain medications that was popular in the 1970s but is now "an outdated technique," said Bruce A. Goldberger, current director of Florida's racing laboratory. The Jockey Club specifically recommended dropping the technique — thin layer chromatography (TLC) — in its letter. This year, the Pari-Mutuel Division was forced to throw out three positive tests for a corticosteroid known as dexamethasone because the drug was found with a more modern method and not TLC, according to state records.

The Pari-Mutuel Division also had to toss out 11 cases in the past two years involving horses that tested positive for the anabolic steroid stanozolol — the same drug Canadian sprinter Ben Johnson infamously used at the 1988 Olympics in Seoul — because Florida's regulations haven't keep pace with technology. The substance was detected in horses' blood instead of their urine, as is required by state rules, even though modern techniques have been able to test for steroids in blood since the mid-2000s.