By: Brian O'Connor The former chief veterinary officer at the Department of Agriculture, Colm Gaynor, is the new chairman of racing’s Anti-Doping Task Force. He takes over the role from the Turf Club’s senior steward Meta Osborne, who recommended that an “independent” chairman with no connection to bloodstock industry bodies be appointed to lead the task
By: Brian O'Connor The former chief veterinary officer at the Department of Agriculture, Colm Gaynor, is the new chairman of racing’s Anti-Doping Task Force. He takes over the role from the Turf Club’s senior steward Meta Osborne, who recommended that an “independent” chairman with no connection to bloodstock industry bodies be appointed to lead the task
By: Richard Forristal The board of Horse Racing Ireland has felt compelled to reconvene the anti-doping task force that was disbanded a year ago in an effort to finally break the impasse in the quest to get breeders and sales companies to agree to Turf Club drug testing procedures. However, Meta Osborne, the Turf Club’s senior steward who chaired
By Tony O'Hehir Trainer Adrian 'Ado' McGuinness has been given a suspended two-year disqualification by the Turf Club arising from a court appearance in Swords, County Dublin last year when he was convicted of being in possession of unauthorised animal remedies at his yard near Lusk, also in County Dublin. The trainer’s yard had been
Press Release: The system of both announced and unannounced drug inspections of racing yards by Turf Club officials could be be extended to stud farms. A document drawn up by Horse Racing Ireland’s chief executive Brian Kavanagh which recommends the measure is being examined by all interested parties including the Irish Thoroughbred Breeders Association. The setting up of
By: Johnny Ward Multi-millionaire developer and trainer Luke Comer remains suspended until the end of the month after the Turf Club's referrals committee met yesterday and found him guilty of "very serious rule breaches". In April, Comer got a suspended six-month ban after he refused permission for officials to inspect his stables. Comer is in
By: Brian O'Connor Body “optimistic” deal can be reached with Breeders Association in next two weeks The Turf Club expects to have a protocol agreed within the next two weeks that will allow racing’s regulatory body carry out drug testing on stud farms. The establishment of a mechanism which would allow Turf Club officials carry
By: Chris Cook Irish authorities have clarified that no suspicions are harboured about the champion jumps trainer Willie Mullins, following news that a vet is accused of possessing unauthorised drugs while he was visiting Mullins’s stable in Carlow. Tim Brennan appeared in Kilkenny district court last week facing 14 charges and is due to appear
By: Brian O'Connor The Turf Club says it is “optimistic” long-awaited protocols to allow officials from racing’s regulatory body carry out drug tests on stud farms can be put in place within the next two months. Negotiations between the Turf Club and the Irish Thoroughbred Breeders Association are ongoing to try and hammer out a
By Brian O'Connor Talks are due to take place between the Turf Club and the Irish Thoroughbred Breeders Association to start implementing protocols for out of competition drug-testing recommended in the recently published Anti-Doping Task Force report, a step that racing’s integrity body describes as being “the last piece of the jigsaw” in terms of
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