But no one can come up with a plausible reason for giving cocaine to a horse, especially in the tiny doses that have been uncovered.
If the trainers did not give cocaine to their horses, where did it come from?
Trainers may not give cocaine to race horses, but some do use other performance-altering drugs.
"We can give cocaine to a monkey and essentially make him look normal."
"It's like giving cocaine to an addict while you're trying to take them through detoxification."
'We'll have to be giving them cocaine instead of whiskey.'
But in the new study, the researchers let the knockout mice give themselves cocaine.
"Was one of the individuals that you gave cocaine to the Mayor of this city?"
I suppose, in fact, that one wouldn't get much result by giving heroin and cocaine, however cunningly mixed, to the average man.
But off the track, his drinking gave way to marijuana use and eventually cocaine.