By: AAP Queensland officials have stepped up drug testing for the winter carnival with samples taken from 50 horses at the Gold Coast feature meeting. The Queensland Racing Integrity Commission has announced increased drug testing in the next two months. QRIC commissioner Ross Barnett said the testing supported the regulation of prohibited substances during Queensland's
By: Adam Pengilly Australian racing's fairytale filly which chased Winx into third in the Cox Plate has been dragged into a drug probe after returning a positive swab to a banned substance during the spring carnival. Stewards on Monday announced Yankee Rose, which beat all bar Australia's wonder mare and Godolphin gun Hartnell in the Cox Plate, tested positive
By: Joshua Robertson A racehorse called Party Till Dawn has tested positive to methamphetamine after a race meeting in regional Queensland. The positive sample for the five-year-old mare, returned after it placed second at a race in Toowoomba in June, is the second horse to show traces of the drug in Queensland in just over
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, something happened in Australia. Sydney
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 can reveal: NSW harness racing
By Blood-Horse Staff As a result of veterinary advice during an investigation into whether a yearling sold at public auction tested positive for a prohibited anabolic steroid, Racing Queensland stewards have determined altrenogest is not so classified. The conclusion was made following a sample taken from a yearling colt sold at this year's Magic Millions
By: Rod Nicholson A YEARLING sold at last month’s Magic Millions sale on the Gold Coast has tested positive to anabolic steroids. It is the first case in Australia of a yearling being sold with illegal steroids since the Australian Racing Board introduced a total ban of anabolic steroids in May last year. Queensland stewards
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