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Some Aspects of Doping and Medication Control in Equine Sports

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Doping in Sports: Biochemical Principles, Effects and Analysis

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This chapter reviews drug and medication control in equestrian sports and addresses the rules of racing, the technological advances that have been made in drug detection and the importance of metabolism studies in the development of effective drug surveillance programmes. Typical approaches to screening and confirmatory analysis are discussed, as are the quality processes that underpin these procedures. The chapter also addresses four specific topics relevant to equestrian sports: substances controlled by threshold values, the approach adopted recently by European racing authorities to control some therapeutic substances, anabolic steroids in the horse and LC–MS analysis in drug testing in animal sports and metabolism studies. The purpose of discussing these specific topics is to emphasise the importance of research and development and collaboration to further global harmonisation and the development and support of international rules.

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With regard to Section 7 of this chapter, An Approach for the Control of Therapeutic Substances in Thoroughbred Horseracing, the authors acknowledge the extensive input into the development of the PK/PD model and its application to the assessment of irrelevant plasma and urinary concentrations of drugs by Professor Pierre-Louis Toutain and his colleagues at the Ecole Nationale Vétérinaire de Toulouse, France.

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Houghton, E., Maynard, S. (2010). Some Aspects of Doping and Medication Control in Equine Sports. In: Thieme, D., Hemmersbach, P. (eds) Doping in Sports: Biochemical Principles, Effects and Analysis. Handbook of Experimental Pharmacology, vol 195. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-79088-4_17

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