What is it about?
This book presents an overview of drugs and medications in performance horses written for the interested layperson. It covers the history of drug and medication testing in racing horses, the different classes of drugs and medications used in performance horses and how they act in horses and may affect performance. It outlines drug testing in racing horses and the regulatory contexts in which equine drug testing is applied worldwide.
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Why is it important?
Testing for drugs and medications in performance hoses is the broadest and most sensitive routine drug testing on earth. It is important to understand the drug testing process and its application because, as His Highness Prince Philip stated in his foreword to this book, "the dividing line between the treatment of injury and disease, on the one hand, and the preparation of horses for competition, on the other, is very narrow and not easily defined".
Perspectives
Thomas Tobin is by profession a Veterinarian, Pharmacologist and Toxicologist who has contributed in this area for approaching 50 years. These contributions include 400 plus research papers and communications, books and workshop proceedings, a panel of ELISA drug tests, numerous reference standards and other relevant regulatory contributions, details at www.thomastobin.com.
Professor Thomas N/A Tobin
University of Kentucky
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This page is a summary of: Drugs and the performance horse by Thomas Tobin. Published by Charles C. Thomas, Springfield, Illinois, USA (1981), obtainable from Helicon Company, PO Box 11012, Lexington, Kentucky, Equine Veterinary Journal, October 1982, Wiley,
DOI: 10.1111/j.2042-3306.1982.tb02431.x.
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