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
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
By Press Release British Horseracing Authority (BHA) has announced today that it has completed the initial stage of its enquiry into the positive results for morphine recently detected in a number of post-race samples. Investigations have established that in all but one of the cases the circumstances are very similar and point to the source
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