Sabotage!
Hello, horse fans and mystery fans and horse mystery fans!
Welcome to Horse Mysteries. On this episode: he was an up-and-coming event rider, working for a stable with promising horses when it all came crashing down with accusations of cheating.
But was it cheating? The rider said no, the stable said no. Was it accidental? Or did someone drug the horses? Was it a case of sabotage?
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Music by Chris Roberts
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You’d think when the stakes are so high, people would be more careful about what substances go into their equine athletes’ bodies. I was surprised to hear about “calming agents” used for dressage. I could use a good calming agent myself sometimes. It may be not quite related to doping issues, but another aspect of levelling the playing field I’ve always wondered about is when they give racehorses extra weight to carry. How do they figure out how much to add to which horses and does it really work to make the outcome of a race more unpredictable?