'It's so easy to cheat': Is horse racing finally getting serious about drug misuse?

LOUISVILLE, Ky. — Barely a month after Maximum Security was disqualified in the 2019 Kentucky Derby, the colt allegedly was injected with a performance-enhancing drug designed to increase endurance and evade detection.

Known as SGF-1000, the compound was deliberately mislabeled to mislead regulators and willingly misrepresented by veterinarians who falsified records to make it seem to be something else, according to a federal indictment.