By: Brian O'Connor The Irish Horseracing Regulatory Board has described as less than ideal any “prior day notice” element likely to be included in the thoroughbred industry’s proposed new anti-doping policy. Despite that, racing’s regulatory body has indicated it is prepared to sign up to the Industry Wide Policy on Prohibited Substances/Doping Control. Representative bodies
By: AAP Trainer Shannon Hope admits he lied during his cobalt case but denies cheating by giving horses supplements on race days to enhance their performances. Hope and his father Lee have pleaded guilty to a lesser charge of administering a prohibited substance as they fight their cobalt disqualifications, blaming their feeding and supplementation regime
By: Richard Forristal Recreational drug use around racing yards increases the risk of horses testing positive for illegal substances, trainers in Ireland have been warned. All licensed trainers have received written notification of the threat in a one-page advisory note from the Irish Horseracing Regulatory Board following a spike in the number of horses returning positive
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
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
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