I Guess I Need To Educate Some People

[Fuguzzi]

One thing I always did that I'll share is - I always jugged a horse the day after every race -- and occasionally before a race.

Sodium iodide? Million ways to skin a cat. I never jugged a horse in my life. Groomed many that got a jug, but I wasn't in charge then.

[JIDGE]

I picked it up working for a guy that grew up in Elmont, so he spent a lot of time at Belmont Park -- his father owned a couple of TB. TB trainers were, I don't know if they still are, big on jugging horses -- pre and post race, electrolytes, vitamins, and yes sodium iodine. Just a quick way of replenishing whatever a horse might have lost racing and/or training. On another note I always fed my horses a little calf manna -- really brought out the shine in their coats. Then once at Hollywood Park a handful of trainers (me included) got a $200 positive for something (I can't remember what it was) that was in the calf manna. It took us about a week to figure out we were all using calf manna and that's where the (substance) positive came from. Needless to say we stopped with the calf manna.

[Parked]

Never heard of it before or since  but the trainer I started out with would put an egg on their feed once a day.  Talk about shiny coats !!!

[Fuguzzi]

I picked it up working for a guy that grew up in Elmont, so he spent a lot of time at Belmont Park -- his father owned a couple of TB. TB trainers were, I don't know if they still are, big on jugging horses -- pre and post race, electrolytes, vitamins, and yes sodium iodine. Just a quick way of replenishing whatever a horse might have lost racing and/or training. On another note I always fed my horses a little calf manna -- really brought out the shine in their coats. Then once at Hollywood Park a handful of trainers (me included) got a $200 positive for something (I can't remember what it was) that was in the calf manna. It took us about a week to figure out we were all using calf manna and that's where the (substance) positive came from. Needless to say we stopped with the calf manna.

Big believer in calf manna. Haven't thought about it in years. Never heard of a positive from it. In teresting.