By: Frank Angst Racing investigators will cover a wide range of topics when they meet for four days in March at Delaware Park in Wilmington, Del. The Organization of Racing Investigators has set the final agenda for its training conference March 14-17 that will include a March 15 address from Delaware attorney general Matthew Denn
By: Blood-Horse Staff The Association of Racing Commissioners International (RCI) will hold the second in a series of "Town Hall" meetings Monday, Feb. 22 at Gulfstream Park. The meeting's purpose is to gather input and hold a frank conversation with racing industry stakeholders, participants, and fans in an attempt to find common ground and workable
By: Justin Horowitz EAST RUTHERFORD, NJ (January 30, 2016) - As a result of its out-of-competition testing program, the Meadowlands Racetrack announces the positive test of a horse trained by Robert Bresnahan, Junior. Tag Up and Go, a six-year-old trotter, returned a positive test for the performance-enhancing substance, epogen, more commonly known as EPO. The
By: Press Release The stewards at Cal Expo issued an interim suspension Jan. 30 to trainer Marissa Tyler for the protection of the public after a number of standardbreds in her barn tested high for cobalt. The stewards conducted an ex parte hearing Jan. 29 following a CHRB investigation that included both out-of-competition testing and
By: Brian O' Connor The long-awaited report from racing’s Anti-Doping Task Force, set up in the aftermath of the steroids controversy that saw trainer Philip Fenton disqualified in 2014, will recommend lifetime bans for horses illicitly administered substances which are prohibited at all times. The report also suggests a single national drug control laboratory for
By: Jay Rooney  Trainer Ben Owen was hit with two charges at a stewards’ inquiry yesterday into allegations he treated Rhino’s Lad on race day at Pinjarra last month. Owen pleaded not guilty to a charge of administering the banned substance, nitrolingual spray, to Rhino’s Lad in the wash bay before he won race
By: Adam Pengilly Paul Murray has blamed Peter Holz, a former owner of his family's prolific Kembla Grange stable, for supplying a product thought to be at the centre of a cobalt probe after Racing NSW stewards issued eight charges against the trainer on Thursday. Murray claimed he had no knowledge of how a bottle - labelled
By: Press Release The sixth business session of the 36th Asian Racing Conference in Mumbai asked panelists and delegates to consider whether or not the industry was succeeding in offering drug free racing. Kaoru Obata, Presidential Counsellor, International Affairs, for the Japan Racing Association served as chairman for the session while Andrew Harding, the Secretary-General
By: Tom Biddington Racing NSW stewards have issued eight charges against Kembla Grange horseman Paul Murray, 19 months after finding a bottle containing cobalt at his stables. The charges relate to the high levels of cobalt found in swabs of his stable star Alma’s Fury, who won the Apollo Stakes in February 2013 and finished
By: Ron Mitchell Stoneway Farm's Dream Dance has been disqualified from her third-place finish in the 2015 Golden Rod Stakes (gr. II) at Churchill Downs and disciplinary action has been taken against her trainer and veterinarian after she tested positive for an overage of phenylbutazone. According to recent rulings by the Kentucky Horse Racing Commission,
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