{"id":6209,"date":"2013-04-09T23:00:45","date_gmt":"2013-04-09T16:00:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ebarrelracing.com\/articles\/?p=6209"},"modified":"2019-03-21T09:25:00","modified_gmt":"2019-03-21T15:25:00","slug":"chrb-issues-warning-about-purina-sweet-feed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ebarrelracing.com\/articles\/trainers-corner\/feeding\/chrb-issues-warning-about-purina-sweet-feed\/","title":{"rendered":"CHRB Issues Warning About Purina Sweet Feed"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In hopes of heading off positive drug tests for zilpaterol, the California Horse Racing Board (CHRB) is warning trainers of sweet feed products containing a molasses base produced by Purina at its Turlock, Calif., mill.<\/p>\n<p>In an advisory issued March 22, the CHRB said it has concluded a number of such products contain zilpaterol, which is prohibited in racing. Zilpaterol is a beta-2 agonist used to promote weight gain in livestock. Association of Racing Commissioners International classifies zilpaterol as a Class 3 drug with a Category A penalty.<\/p>\n<p>Originally published on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bloodhorse.com\/horse-racing\/articles\/77022\/chrb-issues-warning-about-purina-sweet-feed\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">BloodHorse.com<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In an advisory issued March 22, the CHRB said it has concluded a number of such products contain zilpaterol, which is prohibited in racing. Zilpaterol is a beta-2 agonist used to promote weight gain in livestock<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[23,3,14,16,40],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6209","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bloodhorse","category-feeding","category-industry","category-race-horses","category-thehorse"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ebarrelracing.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6209","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\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ebarrelracing.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6209"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.ebarrelracing.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6209\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8436,"href":"https:\/\/www.ebarrelracing.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6209\/revisions\/8436"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ebarrelracing.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6209"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ebarrelracing.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6209"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ebarrelracing.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6209"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}