Drugswatch: horse-racing
Charles Thursby pursues a bee in his bonnet
At the risk of mounting a one-man crusade, today I am beginning a series of occasional pieces highlighting instances and developments on the general subject of ‘drugs in sport’. By which phrase, I mean everything from detection efforts to performance-enhancing substances, performance-stopping skulduggery and straightforward drugs-abuse in the cause of hastening recovery – whether that be from injury or just training fatigue.
Today, as the horse-racing fraternity gathers in the West Country for the Cheltenham Festival, it seems appropriate to provide a link to an article by Ben Rumsby, interviewing Paul Bittar, chairman of the British Horseracing Authority, on the website of the DAILY TELEGRAPH
