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Steroids and Thoroughbred Horse Racing
While slots have become the chief battleground in the fight between Maryland’s horse racing industry and its neighbors’, a pharmaceutical front has opened.
Pennsylvania and Delaware authorities have banned steroids in thoroughbreds, while Maryland officials are deferring a decision. Bets are still off, however, on whether those states’ precedent-setting bans will give them yet another advantage over Maryland horse racing.
Maryland’s racing industry has been losing ground and revenues to competing tracks in Delaware, West Virginia and Pennsylvania, partly because of the attraction of legalized slot machines in those states. Maryland voters in November will consider a referendum on legalizing slots at some tracks.
In the meantime, if Maryland is left as the only ‘‘steroid state” in the region, some observers fear owners and trainers won’t bring their best horses here. Yet others say the lure of being able to use steroids might attract more top horses.
The governing bodies of thoroughbred horse racing and harness racing in Maryland and Virginia and harness racing in Delaware are delaying....
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