milkshaking

[George Thompson]

This word has been appearing frequently of late in the horseracing news
in the [New York] Daily News;

"Milkshaking " is the illegal administration of a mixture of
bicarbonate of soda, sugar and electrolytes to a horse in hopes of
reducing fatigue, thus enhancing its performance.  Daily News, February
10, 2005.

This noxious-sounding mixture, which will no doubt catch on among us
bipeds now that steroids are under a cloud, is called a milkshake.

GAT

George A. Thompson
Author of A Documentary History of "The African Theatre", Northwestern
Univ. Pr., 1998, but nothing much lately.