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    Avatar photoMatthew01
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    Top Australian rider Stathi Katsidis, has been found dead, drug overdose they reckon.

    Sad news. RIP.

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    Coggy
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    Terrible news Matthew.
    Condoloncies to his family

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    Very sad indeed.

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    Avatar photowlively
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    …drug overdose they reckon.

    Not surprising considering he’s been tested positive for MDMA and was disqualified from driving after being pulled over by the police having blood alcohol level more than three times the legal limit.

    Still, sad news especially with the Melbourne Cup at his doorstep.

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    This one is a little dated,though was glancing through and saw the thread.It wasn’t actually a drug overdose,The Headlines in one UK paper stated jockey dies from drug overdose.Obviously it was gutter journalism,because Stathi was suspended in the past for testing positive to recreational drugs,the paper took it on their own to state it was a drug overdose.He actually had a big night drinking with some racing mates at his home.When he finally went to sleep very drunk his wife put the pillow under his head in the lounge room,she seems to think he suffocated as he was to affected by alcohol to wake. The actual autopsy report was inconclusive.He was from the same town as myself and i vaguely knew him in the racing industry.His brother Michael is a very good world class boxer.

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    Thanks for the update on that.

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    .Obviously it was gutter journalism,because Stathi was suspended in the past for testing positive to recreational drugs,the paper took it on their own to state it was a drug overdose.He actually had a big night drinking with some racing mates at his home.When he finally went to sleep very drunk his wife put the pillow under his head in the lounge room,she seems to think he suffocated as he was to affected by alcohol to wake..

    No moralising from me, who had his fair share of alcoholic binges and ‘recreational’ adventures when younger and dafter, but sadly the "gutter journalism" would appear correct: he died from a (legal) drug overdose :(

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    No problems,

    Like a lot of jocks Stathi wasted pretty hard,then after the weeks rides let his hair down and ate a lot and drank a lot. He was as good as any rider in Australia in the form he was in so it was a tragedy.His brother Michael Katsidis fights for the interim WBA and WBO light weight world title on April 9 in Las Vegas.

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