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The inconsistency is baffling.
£1000- for a trace of wormer surely is not the same as traces of sedative.
Tim Vaughan……his failure to check the identities of PIMENT D’ESTRUVAL (FR) and BEN’S FOLLY (IRE) when the geldings had come into his care.
Do you mean to tell me that he can’t tell the difference between French and Irish accents. Incroyable.
Curiously, Vaughan seemed able to identify the French Horse when writing his October 2009 blog and advertising Piment D’estruval for sale:-
Piment D’Estruval – £6,500
By :- Shayraan Out of :- Gabika De Keroger
Piment D’Estruval is a very good looking 6 year old bay gelding who was placed in a “bumper” and has some very consistent form over hurdles in Ireland at trips of around 2 ½ miles. Piment D’Estruval has an Irish handicap mark of 94 which will equate to around 100 BHB, which on glimpses of his form will make him very competitive. He has the scope to jump fences and could improve again once he switches to the larger obstacles.
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Adrian Mutu – Tests possitive for cocaine and as such is banned from English football for life and fined an enormous amount of money.
Barney Curleys horse found with illegal substance and fined 1000 pounds.
Yes of course horse racing has never been cleaner.
What a joke of a sport it is sometimes..
If the BHA formed an equine equivalent of WADA it would be much better – minimum 2 year ban for any failed tests.
WADA are a joke anyway.
True but they have set bans for set offenses Jose and a failed drugs test is a minimum 2 years.
Here it can range from a small fine to a warning off etc. with seemingly no logic applied to the severity of the fine.
It is a minimum 2 years under their regulations when sporting governing bodies, national association’s and so on decide to apply the bans. WADA’s actual authority has been questioned so many times. Given it’s funded in part by the IOC, who choose not to apply the BOA’s policy of banning athletes for life from the Olympics for drug bans, you have to wonder what the real objective is.
Something I was looking at more last night in this area was how the FEI deal with drug related positives in Equestrian sports as I feel it’s more comparable, and I was also reading about the heated discussion regarding the use of Lasix and Bute last year.
I very much doubt the drug was present in a sufficient quantity to have an effect on the horse’s running. If BJC was stopping horses with drugs he’d have been caught long before now- he’s not that daft.
Mr. Curley is a very moral,upright man.He helps the poor and the hungry especially those in far off africa. His horse must have needed the drug as medication for an affliction.Perhaps a contagious condition his owner caught in the dark continent while on a mission of mercy.To fine him is to take the food out of the mouths of the starving children. Shame on them.Better they contribute to his charity.
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