By: Racing.Com Staff NSW trainer Garry McCarney has become the latest trainer banned on cobalt charges after Racing NSW stewards on Wednesday disqualified him for 15 months. McCarney pleaded guilty to two charges under AR178 of having brought Southern Flight and Head To Toe to Narromine on November 12 last year for the purposes of
By: Brian O'Connor The Turf Club says it is “optimistic” long-awaited protocols to allow officials from racing’s regulatory body carry out drug tests on stud farms can be put in place within the next two months. Negotiations between the Turf Club and the Irish Thoroughbred Breeders Association are ongoing to try and hammer out a
By: TDN- Shared News For the third time in the space of a little over a week, a Purebred Arabian trainer based in the United Arab Emirates has been banned two years for cobalt positives. Nacer Samiri pleaded guilty to presenting two horses to race in November with cobalt in their systems over the allowed
By: Racing.Com Staff Mornington trainer Kane Harris will not face charges over two cobalt positives with Racing Victoria stewards announcing on Tuesday night that the reserve samples taken from two of his runners were under the permitted threshold. The move by stewards came after the Queensland laboratory the Racing Science Centre declared the reserve portions
By: AAP Kyneton trainer Neil Dyer has been suspended for three months after pleading guilty to breaching the race day treatment rules. The administration of medication to a horse on race day usually carries a mandatory six-month disqualification unless the Racing Appeals and Disciplinary Board finds there are special circumstance, such as an early guilty
By: Adam Pengilly Australian racing's fairytale filly which chased Winx into third in the Cox Plate has been dragged into a drug probe after returning a positive swab to a banned substance during the spring carnival. Stewards on Monday announced Yankee Rose, which beat all bar Australia's wonder mare and Godolphin gun Hartnell in the Cox Plate, tested positive
By: New Mexico Racing Commission/Press Release The New Mexico Racing Commission (NMRC) recently utilized its ability to fine owners of horses when their horses are confirmed positive for illegal drugs. Owner Alberto Villanueva was fined $15,000 recently for owning five Quarter Horses that proved positive for the prohibited substance Clenbuterol. Villanueva’s problems started back in
By: Andrew Eddy Balnarring trainer Trevor J Andrews could be the first trainer in Victoria to face cobalt charges under revised threshold levels following confirmation that the prohibited substance was found in one of his horses. Racing Victoria stewards announced on Wednesday that they had received a report from Racing Analytical Services Limited confirming that
By: Elly Bradfield A Queensland horse trainer says he will appeal against a $9,000 penalty imposed after one of his horses tested positive to methamphetamine. The positive sample was taken from his horse Party Till Dawn at a race meeting in Toowoomba in June last year. The Queensland Racing Integrity Commission (QRIC) said the drug
By: Geoffrey Riddle Trainer Nacer Samiri has been found in possession of an anabolic steroid by the Emirates Racing Authority’s out of competition testing programme and has been fined Dh20,000. A sample of Stanozolol was delivered unsolicited to Samiri’s Al Wathba Stables training premises, and on November 27 Dr Gabriel Wolcan, a vet, injected the
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