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Who’s the Next UPS Spokesman, Roger Clemens?

United Parcel Service (UPS) has recently announced their marketing deal with the owners of horseracing triple-crown contender Big Brown, despite public admissions by the horse’s trainer Rick Dutrow Jr. that he injects Big Brown with the steroid Winstrol monthly:

A week before Big Brown bolted out of the gates at Churchill Downs from the outside post and raced to a thrilling Kentucky Derby victory, the colt’s trainer Rick Dutrow Jr. revealed a little secret.

“I give all my horses Winstrol on the 15th of every month,” Dutrow told the Daily News. “If (the authorities) say I can’t use it anymore, I won’t.”

Perhaps the most appalling aspect of this story is the fact that this barbaric behavior, doping of race horses, is legal in many states here in the United States of America, including my hometown of New York.

Anyhow, if you have a moment and feel similarly about this behavior, you can let the folks at UPS know how you feel. Tell them to stop supporting any racing organizations that allow these practices.

Perhaps through pressure on corporate sponsors, especially in the run-up to the final race of the triple crown, we can affect some change.

(I would love to find a link to the NY racing commision as well… Gone Googling, be back later…)