By: Katherine Fidler Gene doping could be a risk to the integrity of global racing within a decade according to the BHA, prompting the regulator to invest £1 million in research to detect it alongside teaming up with jurisdictions from around the world to get ahead of the threat. Manipulation of cells to decrease oxygen capacity, muscle mass and
By: Stuart Riley There can be a multitude of reasons for a failed doping test and there is an early leader for the most bizarre cause of a positive this year after the BHA on Thursday disqualified two Suzi Best-trained runners. Outrath and Ertidaad, who won two days apart on the all-weather at Kempton in February 2018,
By: James Burn Bedrock, who created a surprise when downing Samcro at Down Royal in November, missed a rematch with the one-time potential superstar in Saturday's Ryanair Hurdle at Leopardstown because he was not clear of medication that is prohibited on racedays. Trainer Iain Jardine on Monday issued a statement via the National Trainers Federation
By: Tom Kerr The BHA is now testing the first four finishers in all Group races on the Flat and all Grade 1 jumps races in a move that represents a significant escalation of British racing's war on doping, which will also see all samples screened for a number of new substances, including cobalt, from next
By: Brian O'Connor Irish trainer Tony Mullins has been fined by the British Horseracing Authority almost seven months after his runner, Glencairn View, ran at Ayr in April. On Monday a BHA panel imposed a £1,000 (€1,150) fine on Mullins after a stables inspector found a nebuliser and two inhalers among the trainer’s equipment when he attended
By: Marcus Armytage The British Horseracing Authority has launched an investigation amid suspicions a horse was doped to underperform after it was beaten by 22 lengths, when finishing second-last, in a race it had been hot favourite to win. Ladies First, trained by Mick Easterby, tested positive for a beta-blocking drug after the Flame Bathrooms
By: Frank Angst Veterinarian Jeff Blea, chairman of the racing committee of the American Association of Equine Practitioners, relayed a story from a couple years ago when he asked a room of about 200 equine vets if any of them had administered bisphosphonates? Four or five raised their hands, but ... "Afterward, about 25 or 30 of
By: Brian O'Connor The British Horseracing Authority has confirmed it is prepared to drug-test horses trained in Ireland before they race in some of the major flat meetings in Britain this year. Testing was carried out by BHA personnel at the yards of both Willie Mullins and Gordon Elliott prior to the Cheltenham National Hunt festival earlier this month. All samples
By: Chris Cook There were troubling scenes at Kelso yesterday when a syringe, described as “an oral dosing syringe”, was found in one of the boxes in the racecourse stables. The trainer Keith Dalgleish tells me this morning that a member of his stable staff stepped on the syringe as she walked her horse into
Press Release: The BHA is seeking to amend the Rules of Racing to avoid weakening the ability for penalties to be imposed for breaching the equine anti-doping rules. It follows a decision by the independent Appeal Board to dismiss a BHA appeal against a previous independent Disciplinary Panel decision not to impose a penalty on
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