{"id":3303,"date":"2010-05-01T01:29:33","date_gmt":"2010-04-30T18:29:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ebarrelracing.com\/articles\/?p=3303"},"modified":"2010-05-01T01:29:33","modified_gmt":"2010-04-30T18:29:33","slug":"racing-seeks-balance-in-regulating-some-steroids","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ebarrelracing.com\/articles\/industry\/racing-seeks-balance-in-regulating-some-steroids\/","title":{"rendered":"Racing seeks balance in regulating some steroids"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>LOUISVILLE, Ky. \u2014 In this age of juiced sprinters, cyclists and power hitters, the Kentucky Derby wants to make sure America&#8217;s signature thoroughbred race won&#8217;t be won by a juiced horse.<br \/>\nThat doesn&#8217;t necessarily mean the race is steroid-free.<br \/>\nThe stigma of chemical-based cheating may be gone thanks to screening for anabolic steroids prior to last year&#8217;s Derby. But top industry officials say a more controversial battle against a different kind of steroid abuse could be looming.<br \/>\nDerby track veterinarian Larry Bramlage says he expects the &#8220;next frontier&#8221; of drug testing will involve a crackdown on a type of steroids that reduces swelling rather than builds muscle. When used properly, these so-called corticosteroids provide major therapeutic benefits in easing arthritis, but when overused, Bramlage says they can potentially do more damage than anabolics by masking injuries and forcing overexertion. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.google.com\/hostednews\/ap\/article\/ALeqM5g9fBpKZBzy_00Q8UjhORygMkzEbwD9FCTK682\">Read More&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>LOUISVILLE, Ky. \u2014 In this age of juiced sprinters, cyclists and power hitters, the Kentucky Derby wants to make sure America&#8217;s signature thoroughbred race won&#8217;t be won by a juiced horse. That doesn&#8217;t necessarily mean the race is steroid-free. The stigma of chemical-based cheating may be gone thanks to screening for anabolic steroids prior to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3303","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-industry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ebarrelracing.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3303","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ebarrelracing.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ebarrelracing.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ebarrelracing.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ebarrelracing.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3303"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.ebarrelracing.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3303\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3304,"href":"https:\/\/www.ebarrelracing.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3303\/revisions\/3304"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ebarrelracing.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3303"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ebarrelracing.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3303"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ebarrelracing.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3303"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}