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Kentucky Moves Toward Stronger Drug-Testing Program4 April 2001KENTUCKY – April 4, 2001 – As reported by Bloodhorse.com: ``In keeping with the quest for what they call the best equine drug-testing program in the country, Kentucky racing commissioners on Wednesday officially opened the bidding for the state's drug-testing contract. The commission unanimously approved the request for proposal, a thick document that was four months in the making. ``The Kentucky Racing Commission's contract with Truesdail Laboratories of California expired this month but was extended until the new testing program is in place. Commissioner chairman Frank Shoop said he's "99.9% sure" the request for proposal is the best document the state's Equine Drug Council could have prepared. ``…`There was a lot of due diligence on something that was very complicated,' commission vice chairman Frank Jones Jr. said. ``…Dr. Thomas Tobin of the University of Kentucky's Gluck Equine Research Center said the state will have 30 rotating tests for various drugs, and that `instrumental tests' will be added to the mix…" |