Word: magnificent
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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The all but undetectable stimulant was a 2.6% solution of ephedrine. Sprayed up horse's nostrils, ephedrine acts within 15 minutes and the effect lasts for about two hours. Jockey Club snoopers first seized and analyzed a nearly empty bottle found in one of Smith's stalls. Then...
(Reported the hastily proofread New York Herald Tribune: ". . . The state chemist . . . reported traces of ephedrine in the saliva test taken from Mrs. Elizabeth [Arden] Graham." In fact, Magnific Duel's saliva test was negative.)
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