Ontario horse racing considers race-day medication ban: Thestar.com 10/2/14
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
Trainer Stuart Gower Banned for two years, stripped of Darwin Cup…abc.net.au 9/18/14
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
Britain to get new centralised equine database: horsetalk.co.nz 9/16/14
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
Fenton accused of having kilo of anabolic steroids: Racingpost.com 9/4/14
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
Mumbai Police Find Evidence of Alleged Horseracing Doping Conspiracy: LawInSport.com 8/23/14
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
BHA: Morphine Positives Point To Contaminated Feed: Paulick Report 8/11/14
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
