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Equine Drug Testing
•Based on post-race urine samples
•About 10% of runners sampled/500,000 samples/year worldwide •Winners, beaten favorites, selected horses that the stewards nominate •Usually a central university-based laboratory, testing 10-40K samples/year •Scope of testing very broad: 250-2,500 agents