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Just watching the excellent stuff at Ascot on c4, and heard a very short report on this.
As if it didn’t happen in an interview with one of the trainers in question just on the channel.
Any updates on what has happened?Can’t find anything on racing post or sporting life.
It does seem to have been swept under the turf Viltash.
Almanzour is one of those whose connections are under suspicion and the horse will be tested. In an interview the trainer didn’t look that happy considering he’d just won the Champion.
Value Is EverythingG Cunningham tweeted that BHA are ‘happy there is no cause for alarm’ over them – quite what that means I don’t know.
There are enough hardened press men there to have asked the questions. I can only assume BHA is stalling on detail.
Cheers chaps.
Still not so much as a mention on racing post, sporting life and bha websites.
No information will just make misinformation from speculation.I hope there’s nothing in it. Has been a great days racing,the last thing we need is the sport on the front pages for all the wrong reasons. Very poor by the bha not at least issuing a brief statement. They will look their usual blundering selves if something comes of this. Even worse,mcririck will be bumping his gums big style.
Mike Vince on Twitter
“Strange these substance issues at Ascot. Three in one day. Nothing being done differently.Told not a big issue unless routine tests failed.”
The issue seemed to be that these substances, banned or not banned, aren’t allowed to be brought to the racecourse unless given permission by the bha.
I hope it’s all just a bit of miscommunication.
BHA’s Robin Mounsey on twitter in response to question from GC:
electrolytes (allowable on raceday for post-race use, but only if permission sought) and a gastric ulcer treatment
Inevitably picked up by mainstream media. The secrecy of the BHA and silence of the racing press is probably the main story here. Seems they imagine it’ll just go away if they pretend nothing happened, whereas now it just makes it look like racing has something to hide. Having said that, in answer to Palmer’s question of “why the BHA feel it’s appropriate to go through a massive spot check of every trainer’s bags on racing’s biggest day, as if they were looking to make an example of people”, Mounsey suggests this sort of check happens routinely anyway and, as a member of the betting public, I’d expect “racing’s biggest day” to be subject to at least the usual basic scrutiny afforded to lesser meetings
https://www.theguardian.com/sport/2016/oct/16/bha-ascot-spot-checks-robin-mounsey?CMP=share_btn_tw
Tests should be done at least a month before racing (including abroad)… And if trainers don’t agree to let testers in to their yards and/or test a particular horse then trainer and horse should be banned from racing here.
Some banned substances used in training up until around 3 weeks prior to racing – will not be traceale on day of race.
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