Oh Oh !!!!!!!!!!!! One Of The Queen's Horses .

[anneasquith]

tested positive for morphine after winning a recent race. spokesman says the morphine found may be from horse feed ?

[agchristie]

Spooky Anne - just been reading about that!

[anneasquith]

would there be morphine in horse feed ?

[agchristie]

If the feed was contaminated then yes its a possibility.Morphine is banned on racedays...

[Buenchico]

Morphine is commonly used as an analgesic to relieve pain in horses. It's completely within the rules except that it shouldn't be used on race days. So it seems likely that a simple error has occurred.

But it's not the first time that one of Lizzie's horses has tested positive. Moonlit Path was deliberately injected with tranexamic acid, upon the instructions of the trainer, in 2009.

[agchristie]

Thats right Buenchico.

I suspect foal play ;-)

[anneasquith]

oh my.. nobbling horses, :)

[Buenchico]

LOL (or possibly wince) @ AgChristie's pun!

[agchristie]

The laughter wont last fur long..

[Buenchico]

Hmmm.

I suppose the good thing about anyone who uses Agatha Christie's name is that we can all expect her to completely disappear, without explanation, for a while!
;-)

[agchristie]

LOL The Moving Finger!!!

[Hypognosis]

Morphine meddlers move mysteriously. Might mean malefactors must meet ma'am's menacing marmeliser. Marvelous!

[agchristie]

Impressive alliteration H!!

[Hypognosis]

Thanks. I call it alliterosis though. It's a disease. ;-)

[agchristie]

LOL - seems we are the last ones standing at the moment...

[viv38]

Not the Queen's fault though.

[whiskeryron]

It has been found it's sad to say
A royal horse was ***
Not on lowly ale this day
The hard stuff had been dished.

I hope that lads and other blokes
Stablewise throughout
Will keep a watch and just make sure
That nags don't start on smokes.

[whiskeryron]

The missing words were ***

[whiskeryron]

I give up.

[RandyMarsh]

£10 says it is Phillip's morphine.

[marval]

One is not amused.