Unnatural Ability: The History of Performance-Enhancing Drugs in Thoroughbred Racing

ISBN-13: 9780813197432

Media Type: Hardcover

Publisher: University Press of Kentucky

Publication Date: 08-08-2023

Pages: 440

Product Dimensions: 6.00(w) x 9.00(h) x (d)

Series: Horses in History

Milton C. Toby is an award-winning author, journalist, and attorney with more than forty years of experience researching and writing about Thoroughbred racing and equine law. He is the author of eight books, including Taking Shergar: Thoroughbred Racing's Most Famous Cold Case, Dancer's Image: The Forgotten Story of the 1968 Kentucky Derby, and Noor: A Champion Thoroughbred's Unlikely Journey from California to Kentucky.

Table of Contents

Introduction
1. The Death of Dr. Riddle
2. "Doc" Ring and the Modern Era of Doping
3. The Injection
4. Rule 162
5. The Drug Czar Goes Racing
6. Reports from the Field
7. US v. Parke
8. The Spit Box
9. "Those Bastards"
10. The Joint Board
11. The Not-So-Absolute Insurer Rule
12. The TRPB and the Defection of Dr. Kater
13. The Derby and the Doctor
14. Permissive Medication and the "E" in Ped
15. The Steroid Derby
16. The Indictments and the Wiretaps
17. The Balkanization of American Racing
18. Legislating Integrity?
19. Genetics, the Wealth Gap, and the Myth of the Level Playing Field
Afterword

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