LOUISVILLE — Keeneland will begin drug testing for 2-year-olds after suggestions from critics that performance-enhancing drugs are used to help fetch higher prices for some horses.

        Keeneland will adopt the same medication rules that the state imposes for races when it begins testing at the April 17 sale.

        “By using the rules of racing, we're making a level playing field. We felt it was the right thing to do,” said Rogers Beasley, Keeneland's director of sales.

        The 2-year-old sales have faced scrutiny because of unusually fast performances during pre-sale public workouts, which affect the price a horse can bring.

        Critics have suggested horses with the fastest times may have been given anti-inflammatories, anti-bleeder medications, bronchodilators or painkillers.

        Under the regulations, horses with the fastest workout times and others randomly chosen will be tested.

        Consignors will be required to list all medications given to the horses for each of the 14 days before the sale.

        Any horse disqualified will be removed from the sale, and a buyer would have the right to negate the sale.

        By adopting those rules, Keeneland will have the strictest regulations in the country for 2-year-old sales.

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