Ellis Park to Conduct Random Milkshake Testing

Ellis Park in Henderson, Ky. will randomly test horses before every race during its 2005 meet for alkalizing agents known as milkshakes.

Under Ellis’ milkshake testing policy, the track will require a random number of horses entered in

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Ellis Park in Henderson, Ky. will randomly test horses before every race during its 2005 meet for alkalizing agents known as milkshakes.


Under Ellis’ milkshake testing policy, the track will require a random number of horses entered in each race during the July 13-Sept. 5 meet to submit to a blood test administered by or under the supervision of a Kentucky Horse Racing Authority veterinarian 45 minutes prior to that race. Horses will not be required to report to a detention barn and will be tested in their own stall. The policy establishes a list of penalties for “positive” results from those tests.


Should an owner, trainer or any other person responsible for that horse refuse or fail to permit the collection of that pre-race blood sample, the horse will be scratched from that race and that refusal would count as a violation of the track’s “milkshake” testing policy.


Ellis Park considered implementing mandatory pre-race testing for every horse in every race similar to the testing employed at the start of the Churchill Downs Spring Meet. After consultation with the state veterinary’s office and the KHRA, Ellis Park opted for random testing

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