Re: drugs &listerine -isn't it illegal?

[Teddy Lancaster <Teddy@runningbear.com>]

Hell if I know.  hell if I think that a topical application of Listerine could even
enhance a horses' performance.

I simply do what is good for my horse and ignore the rest.

teddy

tvanhove@uswest.net wrote:

> Teddy Lancaster wrote:
>
> > You are NOT crazy, and yes, it is done.  At the race track we used Listerine
> > sweats on legs, etc...a nice mild anti-biotic and astringent at the same time.
> >
> > Teddy
>
> But isn't illegal to apply topically anything that contains menthol and/ormethyl
> salicylate at an endurance ride?  No wonder that people are
> crying out for a guidelines - the list is a grea idea, but I haven't got to that
> web site yet to read it.  I think that for my $65 membership fees it should
> be sent to me either in my mandatory EN subsrcibtion as an article or
> as part of the rules/handbook.  Its been said before but the current
> system of saying no drugs w/o giving guidelines to every member is
> inviting unintentional breaking of the rules, and that is doing a
> dis-service both to the rookie riders and to their horses IMO.
>
> Teresa


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