His wife, Diane, is Australia's female body-building champion. Stratton's e-mail address is the address for all Ausvet inquiries. When first called, he says that steroids are not available on the Net. He says Denkal pay him a set, six-monthly fee. Stratton says it is not really strange for veterinary steroids to be advertised on a body-building site.
People take whatever they can get.
Ten kilometres further, in a Smithfield industrial estate, is Troy's factory. General manager Rene Weiss is an accountant by trade. He wears grey slacks and a blue pullover and has a thin, Abe Lincoln beard. I've got nothing to hide,'' he says a few minutes after our arrival. Strict controls on steroids he produces, he says, prevent improper use.