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A racehorse owned by Queen Elizabeth has tested positive for morphine
A racehorse owned by the Queen has tested positive for morphine. Buckingham Palace said the banned substance was found in Estimate, trained by Sir Michael Stoute, reports the BBC. Initial indications are that the positive test resulted from the consumption of a contaminated feed product, the Palace said. Read full article
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Jul 22nd, 2014 - 11:29 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Somehow I bet it's one where the horses are tested immediately after or before the race and the result was negative...
just a wild guess....
“the positive test resulted from the consumption of a contaminated feed product, the Palace said”
Jul 23rd, 2014 - 03:25 am - Link - Report abuse 0Tesco Finest horse meat lasagne perhaps?
Same thing happened a few years ago. Gold Cup at Newbury was disqualified due to the horses feed being contaminated. It's rare but it does happen.
Jul 23rd, 2014 - 08:56 am - Link - Report abuse 0The way the food is produced it can become contaminated with Poppy Seeds which will give a drugs test positive for Morphine.
The feed product itself(Dodson and Horrell) has apparently been tested positive for contamination.
But what was the effect of the morphine, if any, on the performance of the horses?
Jul 23rd, 2014 - 12:11 pm - Link - Report abuse 0It laid back, chilled out adopted a silly grin..put it's feet up and let the numbness wash over it....
Jul 23rd, 2014 - 12:35 pm - Link - Report abuse 0At least that's what I did when I came off a bike at 90 mph and broke my back....
Russian infiltration to get back the 'Malvinas' for the Argies. What else could it be?
Jul 23rd, 2014 - 02:16 pm - Link - Report abuse 0@ 5 The Voice
Jul 23rd, 2014 - 04:36 pm - Link - Report abuse 0“I came off a bike at 90 mph and broke my back....”
That's what happens when you go too fast into traffic islands and can't make the bend. Direction sign was it?
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Jul 23rd, 2014 - 04:47 pm - Link - Report abuse 0A roundabout and the folly of believing I could actually make it.....
...and the lesson learned...no more superbikes, give an idiot a 170 mph lethal weapon and you only have one result ...but the Morphine was good.
Not sure why this 'non-story' is published in Mercopress. in only 5 posts it has moved too motorbikes etc... says a lot really
Jul 23rd, 2014 - 05:38 pm - Link - Report abuse 0What is the relevance to South America/South Atlantic?
Was HM The Queen planning on racing the horse there? Are poppy-seeds in horse feed a big problem in Lat Am?
I think we should be told. (harrumph!)
This has, hitherto, been a common occurrence: there has been morphine in horse feed for years due to contamination (in very small amounts of morphine) because of suppliers not cleaning up their act. It is a well known fact among top jockeys and owners, and said not to affect the horses performance; but this time there was probably too much, and being found with a royal horse, brings greater attention to the matter.
Jul 23rd, 2014 - 07:17 pm - Link - Report abuse 0“But what was the effect of the morphine, if any, on the performance of the horses?”
Jul 24th, 2014 - 01:27 am - Link - Report abuse 0None really. It was trace amounts in the blood. But Zero tolerance is zero tolerance.
There was a veterinarian who wrote a column on this who was convinced the drug would serve no purpose in this race even if it was in Drug dosage.
There was a story a while back how quite a few businessmen and other professionals have lost jobs due to failing drug tests from eating poppy seed buns. Basically the same thing that happened here. They even made a documentary about it.
hope that Sir W@nker Stoute and the old biatch will be jailed for that.
Jul 26th, 2014 - 07:53 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Haha! We don't jail people because their horse-feed supplier let a few stray poppy seeds fall into the mix.
Jul 26th, 2014 - 09:33 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Bwahahahahahah a!
Only in Argentina would that be possible.
Dream on jealous boy, and don't forget to send us that Thank You card (for the British Aid every year).
haha
Jul 26th, 2014 - 10:08 pm - Link - Report abuse 0of course the british, (the real ones, not you), will not jail the old biatch and sir w@nker.
they not even imprisoned blair.
surely they all will be part of the list of british heroes with morgan the pirate, cromwell the invader, churchill the assassin, thatcher the whore, etc.
@ 14 Polly
Jul 26th, 2014 - 10:31 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Yes, you are correct for once.
We have some great killers you know: 2 & 3 Para, my favourite 42 Commando (I have met a number) and of course if we are up against the argies a number of Boy Scout packs or better still as it is a bit unfair putting boy scouts against you, how about some Girl Guides?
A bit like female Ghurkhas some of the girls, especially if you try messing with them. If you had any balls, which we know you haven’t, they’d have them shoved down your throat before you could say “please no, NO, not my todger - ahhh!
I don’t think it would upset your wife though, I suspect the lodger’s having it off with her, well he has got the money to pay the rent after all.
Keep smiling, it convinces everybody that you are a Looney Toon.
15 cristinita
Jul 26th, 2014 - 10:43 pm - Link - Report abuse 0it seems you, cagones x 1000, always need someone else to save your dirty asses.
during ww2 little britain needed argentina to feed its starved populace.
they also needed our 4000 soldiers.
they also needed the u.s. to avoid being exterminated by the germans.
and now they need the gurkhas.
fight your own wars by yourself, bunch of cowards.
Like in 1982?
Jul 27th, 2014 - 12:16 am - Link - Report abuse 0:)
:)
ps: the Thank You card hasn't arrived yet, you naughty boy.
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