By: Andrew Eddy The VCAT cobalt hearing of trainers Danny O'Brien and Mark Kavanagh moved a step closer to a conclusion on Friday with final submissions completed, but no date has been set for a decision. The hearing for the two Flemington trainers, both disqualified for lengthy periods on cobalt offences, began on the first
By: Tom Precious A major equine drug infraction case, which led to the revocation of a Standardbred trainer's license, has been overturned by a New York state appeals court. The Appellate Division of New York State Supreme Court's Third Department found in favor of Luis Pena, a top Standardbred trainer who was accused by New
By: PA.Gov Harrisburg, PA - Results of official rulings issued against licensees by the Pennsylvania Horse Racing Commission now will be available online as part of the commission’s continuing commitment to transparency and modernizing its oversight of the state’s racing industry. Historically, access to the database of Rulings was limited to racing regulators. Today, any
By: Frank Angst As handicappers look for every possible angle in considering a horse's chances in the Breeders' Cup World Championships, Santa Anita Park security will be monitoring every Breeders' Cup horse from a state-of-the-art surveillance system. The most comprehensive surveillance system of any track in North America, Santa Anita cameras peer into all 1,900
By: Natalie Voss Nearly 60 percent of this year's Breeders' Cup runners have been tested as part of the event's out-of-competition testing (OOCT) program. According to figures provided to the media Thursday, all horses winning Breeders' Cup Challenge races, plus a smattering of additional likely contenders, were tested in the weeks and months leading up
By: Tessa Akerman/The Australian Victoria’s racing integrity commissioner is auditing drug swabbing across the three racing codes amid concerns that tests are being destroyed or going missing, and that positive drug tests are not being prosecuted. Commissioner Sal Perna engaged an external agency to conduct the audit of the end-to-end drug swabbing process through random sampling
By: Racing.Com Staff Wodonga trainer Brian Cox has been found guilty on eight charges relating to the administration and possession of Nitrotain, and giving false or misleading evidence to stewards. The Racing Appeals and Disciplinary Board sat on Wednesday, with Judge John Bowman delivering a short summary of the 41-page document citing the reasons for
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