DURING THE EIGHTIES,WHEN OSCAR WAS ON HIS MAGICAL RIDE I WAS VERY GOOD FREINDS WITH JOHN RIGIONE ,JOHN WHO IN TURN WAS VERY GOOD WITH CHESTER ROSS WHOS HORSES WERE STABLED IN OSCARS BARN, I REMEMBER JOHN TELLING ME THAT CHESTER TOLD HIM THAT OSCAR WAS USING GOAT AND RABBIT ENDORPHINS AT 200 A VIAL,OSCAR WOULD ALWAYS USE A TONGUE TIE ON ALL HORSES HE CLAIMED ,HE WOULD CRUSH UP NITRO GLCERIN TABLETS MIX WITH DISTILLED WATER ,THE NITRO WOULD OPEN UP THE ARTERY FOR MORE BLOOD FLOW ,THE ENDORPHINS PRODUCE A MORPHINE EFFECT ,HE TOLD ME IT WAS UNDECTECTABLE SINCE THE ENDORPHINS ARE PRODUCED WITHIN THE BRAIN THUS GIVING HIM HIS MAGICAL POWERS, I CANT DISPUTE THIS,I ONLY WENT BY WHAT WAS TOLD ,JOHN WAS A VERY GOOD HORSEMAN BACK IN THE DAY,AND CAN SPEAK ON IT SINCE THERE NO LONGER AROUND.................STELLASTAR