By:  Shane Anderson The Victorian Racing Industry is set for an integrity shake-up after the Andrews Labor Government agreed in principle to the establishment of a new body to oversee integrity across the three codes of racing. Martin Pakula, Victoria’s Minister for Racing and Attorney-General, on Thursday released the review of the integrity structures of
By: Patrick Bartley Racing Victoria stewards inspected the Caulfield stables of Ciaron Maher after reports that suspended trainer Peter Moody had been in the trainer's area at trackwork and present at his former stables. Maher has taken over part of Moody's stables when the Black Caviar trainer retired after being suspended for six months, with another
By: Adam Pengilly Expect at least one trainer to make representations to have a previous penalty quashed in the wake of three others escaping without charge from the ibuprofen mess in the past week. Gary Portelli was the first trainer in NSW to come under the microscope for a positive to the anti-inflammatory when his ageing gelding Za
By: Equine Canada As of May 1, 2016, new Canadian Pari-Mutuel Agency (CPMA) testing guidelines are being applied to the analysis of Equine Canada (EC) equine samples by the official laboratory (Maxxam). The new guidelines can be found HERE. Until August 1, 2016, in recognition of the need to allow for the best compliance and understanding
By: AAP Queen Elizabeth Stakes-winning trainer Kris Lees will face a positive swab inquiry, a Racing NSW stewards' statement has confirmed. The Lees-trained City Of Justice tested positive to the anti-inflammatory drug ibuprofen after winning at Taree in January. Newcastle-based Lees will front stewards on May 9, less than a month after he trained Lucia
By: Racing.Com Staff Trainer Paul Jones faces a longer time on the sidelines than the banned Essendon AFL players after he was charged with possession and administration of peptide Thymosin Beta 4. Jones, who trains at Stawell in western Victoria, was on Wednesday issued with two charges under Australian Racing Rule 177B. The first of
By: Daryl Timms URINE samples from the three Lee and Shannon Hope horses to return positive cobalt tests will be retested by the Hong Kong Jockey Club’s Racing Laboratory after claims it was not accredited to carry out the tests at the time. The urine has been stored at the laboratory since initial tests in
By: Tom Biddington Pakenham trainer Matthew Leek is the latest to become embroiled in the cobalt saga. Racing Victoria stewards announced on Tuesday that Leek’s horse Champagne Kisses returned a sample of 531 micrograms per litre of urine in a pre-race test on March 3. The mare finished 11th in the Evergreen Turf F&M Maiden
By: Shane Anderson Trainers Lee and Shannon Hope will argue that the laboratories employed by Racing Victoria to test for cobalt were not properly accredited when their appeals are heard by the Victorian Civil and Administrative Tribunal (VCAT) on August 1. In an explosive directions hearing in front of Judge Pamela Jenkins at VCAT on
By: Daryl Timms DARREN Weir and Clinton McDonald will not be charged by stewards after each had a horse test positive to the prohibited drug ibuprofen. But stewards will recommend to the Racing Appeals and Disciplinary Board that their horses be disqualified from the races they won on the days of the positive tests. Both
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