Originally Posted by Chrome Prince

In the 1980's I used to attend the trots at Moonee Valley and the top driver trainer combo used to roll through the gates with sodium bicarbonate all over the wheels, that's why when they got a horse, it improved by half a lap, stops the build up of lactose. In an interview with the trainer, (he must have forgotten) he attributed his success to the water walker he imported from America in those days. In the background shot was a pallet of sodium bicarbonate