I'm a newbie, done three 25's and my
first 50 was last weekend. My question is,
How do I find out the legal vs illegal
drugs that I can use on my horse? Someone told me that yucca will
show up if my horse is drug tested. Also what about absorbine? I
was told that it would test, too.
AERC has been very bad about addressing
this. Anything other than food and water is considered a
drug. There are NO legal drugs. There are no published
clearance times if your horse had to be medicated and then much later
compete. As lab tests become much more sensitive, minute amounts
of drugs may still test positive. I don't know enough equine
pharmacology to make those kind of decisions. I want to be legal,
I believe in No Drugs rule, but I want guidance, too. To answer your
question; yes, absorbine and yucca will both test as an illegal
substance!
Search the archives for previous
discussions about this. Cheryl Newbanks received an old,
abbreviated AERC drug list that is by no means all inclusive. I
will send this to you separately so as not to bring the endurance list
to its knees.. I hope that it helps. If anyone else is
interested enough to have read this far down the message, I'll be happy
to send you a copy as well - just let me
know.