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Harthill and Cavalaris both insist that neither of them gave Dancer's Image a second dose of Butazolidin, that the "Bute" discovered in his urine after the Derby must have been residue from the Sunday treatment-although horses normally retain Butazolidin in their systems for no more than 72 hours. There was speculation that because Dancer's Image stood in ice (to reduce the ankle swelling), also received steroid and B-complex-vitamin injections, the Butazolidin was "frozen" in his system for an abnormally long time...
...purposely drugged the horse is farfetched. Butazolidin is neither a stimulant nor a sedative; it cannot make a good race horse out of a bad one, or a bad horse out of a good one. Among the myriad rumors in Louisville last week was the story that someone gave Bute to Dancer's Image by accident at night, mistaking him for another horse -and the stewards gave it some credence by questioning other horsemen whose charges had been stabled near the Dancer's barn during Derby week. But Dancer's Image is a grey, an unusual color...
Sandy Koufax, the great Los Angeles Dodger pitcher, took "bute" to ease the ache in his arthritic throwing arm; Whitey Ford, the New York Yankee ace, swallowed six Butazolidin tablets before games that he pitched...
...requires that no trace of Butazolidin remain in a horse's system on the day of a race. Kentucky was the last state to pass such a law; it did so in 1962, two years after a long shot named Venetian Way, who was practically hooked on bute, scored an upset victory in the Derby...
...horse Butazolidin six days, or 144 hours, before the Derby. The drug was administered on a vet's prescription-two tablets, forced down the horse's throat with a "balling gun." That was the only time, insisted Cavalaris, that he or anybody in his employ ever administered bute to Dancer's Image. His story suggested that Dancer's Image, through some quirk in his physiological makeup, retained the drug for an extraordinarily long period of time-a tenuous possibility after reports from Kentucky indicated that his urine contained considerably more than a mere trace...