Trainer Mark Riley banned for three years: The Sydney Morning Herald 2/23/15
The owners of leading Blue Diamond Stakes contender Of The Brave will have to find a new trainer following the disqualification of Mark Riley. The Victorian trainer was given the ban for a bi-carb offence on Monday, a day before acceptances for Saturday's Group One race at Caulfield. Chief steward
Victorian lab will be first in Australia to test for cobalt as racing…: Herald Sun 2/20/15
Victorian lab will be first in Australia to test for cobalt as racing steps up fight against PEDs By Leo Schlink and Daryl Timms VICTORIAN racing’s fight against performance-enhancing substances has escalated with the creation of Australia’s first cobalt-testing laboratory. When completed, the $350,000 lab will test both blood and
Cobalt: Eroding the integrity of racing in Australia: Thoroughbred Racing Comentary 2/18/15
By Jessica Owers For a long time, much of the world was able to wag its finger at American racing and its drug problems. Race-day Lasix and phenylbutazone uses, steroid obsession... these were U.S. issues, far from the perceived clean loins of the wider racing world. But late in 2014,
Underworld figures linked to injecting cobalt in harness race horses: Herald Sun 2/17/15
By: Carly Crawford A GROUP of racing figures linked to Melbourne’s underworld has been juicing up harness racing horses with record doses of cobalt. A Herald Sun investigation has exposed suspected links between the cobalt epidemic sweeping Australian racing, underworld figures, and racing’s synthetic EPO doping scourge. The Herald Sun
CPMA To Test For Cobalt: Standardbred Canada 2/16/15
On Monday, the Canadian Pari-Mutuel Agency issued a statement regarding its position on the use of cobalt in racehorses. Given the recent publicity surrounding cobalt, the purpose of this notice is to provide the racing industry with information with respect to the CPMA's position on this substance. Cobalt is a
Commission To Meet With Vets: Standardbred Canada 2/10/15
Officials from the Ontario Racing Commission have announced that in the interest of ongoing dialogue with the veterinarian community, the ORC will be meeting with its licensed veterinarians Wednesday evening (February 11) in Guelph. According to a release from the ORC, the commission will first meet with all commission and
