Press Release: Owner/trainer Lee J. Rossi has been granted a stay after he filed an appeal of a $10,000 fine and 365-day suspension levied by stewards after a horse under his care tested positive for the Class A substance dextromethamphetamine. Dextromethamphetamine is a potent central nervous system stimulant used to ward off fatigue and enhance
Press Release: Tatura trainer Belinda Dunn has been charged under the Australian Rules of Racing in relation to an elevated cobalt reading. The Dunn-trained Margot's Boy returned a cobalt reading above the threshold of 100 micrograms per litre of urine in a post-race sample after the horse's win in the Mark Goring BM58 Handicap (1980m)
By: Richard Forristal Denis Egan, chief executive of the Irish Horseracing Regulatory Board, has revealed 2018 will produce an increase in the number of horses returning positive tests for banned substances, but insists there is nothing sinister about the spike despite the year being only at the halfway point. In each of the past three years,
Press Release: A turbulent week for Mark Purdon and Natalie Rasmussen has come to a tolerable end. Australasia's most successful training partnership had its Harness Jewels preparations thrown into disarray this week with fears nine of its runners may have been exposed to drug contamination during a float trip from Auckland to Cambridge. The horses,
By: AAP/ Mark Oberhardt Queensland's leading trainer Ben Currie will lodge an application for a stay on a suspension of his licence after he was charged with 31 breaches of the racing rules. Toowoomba-based Currie, who leads the state's trainer standings with 130 wins, was called to front a reconvened stewards' inquiry in Brisbane on
Press Release: A lawsuit filed by James Padgett and Race Horses by Diamond G Ranch, Inc. (Plaintiff) against All American Ruidoso Downs, LLC (Defendant) was dismissed by the Lincoln County 12th Judicial District Court on May 21. The lawsuit claimed that Padgett's denial of stalls and exclusion from racing for the upcoming summer racing season
By: Andrew Eddy Toowoomba licensed trainer Mark Currie has been found guilty of 16 charges relating to race day treatment and was disqualified for two years at a reconvened steward’s inquiry in Brisbane on Monday. Queensland Racing Integrity Commissioner Ross Barnett said stewards concluded an inquiry into the activities of Currie - the father of
Press Release: Harness racing trainer Don Burrows has been fined $9,000 for producing a horse to race when not free of a prohibited substance (Kavain). The horse in question was Lightworkofit who won at Addington on the 2nd and 23rd of February 2018 but has since been disqualified from both races. Burrows accepted that he has committed
By: Chris McGrath Seoul, SOUTH KOREA–The physical well being of the horse, and the integrity of the horseman, dominated the agenda on the second day of the 37th Asian Racing Conference in Seoul on Wednesday. The spectre of gene doping-which has been viewed as “the elephant in the room” by some veterinary and bloodstock professionals-was
Press Release: The National Thoroughbred Racing Association (NTRA) announced today that Baltimore’s historic Pimlico Race Course, home of the Preakness Stakes, has earned reaccreditation from the NTRA Safety & Integrity Alliance. America’s second-oldest racetrack, established in 1870, opened its 12-date spring meet last week and will host the 143rd running of the Preakness, middle jewel of Thoroughbred racing’s Triple
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