Question, 'I Want To Make My Horse Run Faster And Win More Races, How Can I Do It?'

answer, buy it a frog!

yes I did a double take when looking through some old newspaper headlines, but it is not as strange as it appears, how I do not know but some horse trainers have found a until recently an undetectable performance enhancing drug to increase a horses performance,


not just any old frog it has to be a waxy monkey tree frog, (Phyllomedusa sauvagei), from South America, it appears the skin of the frog exudes a wax, hence the name which keeps the frog moist, it also appears the this wax is high in dermorphin, a pain suppressant, Craig W. Stevens, a professor of pharmacology at Oklahoma State University who has studied dermorphin, said the substance makes animals “hyper.” 'for a racehorse, it would be beneficial,' he said. 'the animal wouldn’t feel pain, and it would have feelings of excitation and euphoria',

how often dermorphin is used in racing is not known — many states do not have the capability to test for it — but so far laboratories have found it in Louisiana, Oklahoma and New Mexico, its use is also suspected in Texas, Charles A. Gardiner III, executive director of the Louisiana Racing Commission said, 'in Louisiana 11 horses, both quarter horses and thoroughbreds, tested positive for dermorphin, He said two quarter horses in particular earned big purses, 'a lot of money’s got to be given back', speaking of money the frogs are for sale for just $99.99 each, 

Industrial Laboratories in suburban Denver was the first lab to successfully identify dermorphin in postrace testing, Petra Hartmann, director of direct testing services for the company, said clients relayed tips from racetrack workers that the frog secretion was being used, and later some seized materials turned out to be dermorphin, 'We identified dermorphin,' Ms. Hartmann said', 'We knew it was out there', but, she said, the lab’s test could not identify the drug in horses after they raced, We went back to the drawing board', Industrial’s chief scientist subsequently developed a more sensitive test, specifically for this compound, the cheats are now being brought to book, but who would have thought a frog could throw a race?