By Tony Mcmahon MACKAY racehorse trainer Darren Symons has been disqualified from racing for 12 months by Townsville racing stewards over the finding of a prohibited substance in a urine swab. Symons' Townsville winner from July 24 named Showmethemoney returning a finding upon urine analysis to the prohibited substance ethacrynic acid. Often described as a
NEWS RELEASE October 16, 2014 Contact: Hallie Roach Lewis (859) 224-2848 RMTC BOARD ENCOURAGED BY UNIFORM RULE ADOPTIONS, ADVANCES LABORATORY UNIFORMITY, APPROVES RULE ON COMPOUNDED MEDICATION A review by the board of directors of the Racing Medication and Testing Consortium (RMTC) of state-by-state adoption of the Association of Racing Commissioners International (RCI) National Uniform Medication
By Giselle Wakatama Allegations of serious doping violations have prompted inquiries into two New South Wales horse trainers, including one in Newcastle. Horse racing officials have spent the past year on alert for the banned additive cobalt chloride It boosts red blood cells and mimics the effects of the banned performance enhancing drug EPO. Racing
By Conor Kane The body that oversees horseracing is to study the fallout of a court judgment which saw former Irish Grand National winning-trainer Pat Hughes convicted of possessing unauthorised animal remedies. Mr Hughes (72) of Fenniscourt Stud, Bagenalstown, Co Carlow, pleaded not guilty yesterday at Carlow district court to eight charges of possession of
By Jennifer Morrison The Ontario Racing Commission urges the sport to take on a ban of all race-day medications except for the anti-bleeding drug Lasix by 2015. A horse works out at Woodbine racetrack on Sept. 8 in advance of the Woodbine Mile. A ban on race-day medications may come into effect by early 2015.
By James Purtill and James Oaten Trainer Stuart Gower has been banned from racing for two years after his Darwin Cup-winning horse Saturday Sorcerer tested positive for a banned steroid. He said he would appeal against the sentence. A stewards inquiry formally stripped the South Australian trainer of the Cup after he pleaded guilty to
By horsetalk.co.nz Britain is to get a new central equine database, which will enable the country to meet tougher European regulations announced this week. The last centralised system, the National Equine Database, closed two years ago. Its loss was lamented by several industry groups. The new database will be part of a more robust and
NEWS RELEASE September 12, 2014 Contact: Hallie Roach Lewis (859) 224-2848 ARKANSAS RACING COMMISSION ADOPTS NATIONAL UNIFORM MEDICATION PROGRAM The Arkansas Racing Commission yesterday became the most recent commission to adopt the Controlled Therapeutic List and the Multiple Medication Violation portions of the National Uniform Medication Program recommended by the Racing Medication and Testing Consortium
By Conor Kane A KILOGRAM of anabolic steroids was found at trainer Philip Fenton's yard during an inspection in 2012, a court in County Tipperary heard on Thursday. At the brief hearing - the eighth time the matter had been in court - a full day was set aside on October 23 to hear the
By Manali Kulkarni In December 2013 trainer Pesi Shroff’s1 ward, Bullseye, was banned after testing positive for the steroid, Boldenone. Shortly after, in February 2014, Shroff filed a police report to Tardeo police station (Mumbai), arguing that these test results were part of a conspiracy. The Tardeo police transferred his case to the Mumbai police
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