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Today’s Quiz Question
What links the following:-
– 20 endurance horses banned by the FEI after failing drug tests.
– anabolic steroids administered to horses trained at a stable in Newmarket
– a consignment of unlicensed veterinary drugs seized at Stansted Airport on 3rd May 2013
– 124 unauthorised equine medicines discovered in Newmarket
Answers on a postcard please to
The British Horseracing Authority
75 High Holborn
LONDON
WC1V 6LSwho will use the entries to fuel their next staff barbecue.
PS For those who have not seen it here is the Stansted story
http://www.horseandhound.co.uk/news/illegal-drugs-seized-at-stansted-airport/
Telegraph reader Paul?
"PM Jim Hacker: "Don’t tell me about the press. I know exactly who reads the papers: The Daily Mirror is read by people who think they run the country, the Guardian is read by people who think they ought to run the country, the Times is read by people who actually do run the country, the Daily Mail is read by the wives of the people who run the country, the Financial Times is read by people who own the country, the Morning Star is read by people who think the country ought to be run by another country and the Daily Telegraph is read by people who think it is."
Sir Humphrey: "Prime Minister, what about the people who read the Sun?"
Bernard Wooley: "Sun readers don’t care who runs the country, as long as she’s got big tits."Nope – try again
When one thinks of the abuse Aidan got because he would not let one of his horses stay in England over night(he was called back to explain before being fined)They said he showed a lack of respect for the local vets !!!!Why Godolphin don’t even use a vet to drug their horses. And they get off scot free for smuggling drugs into a training establishment.
No racing link to Newmarket drug seizure – BHA
The British Horseracing Authority says it has been reassured that a seized consignment of veterinary products not licensed for use in Britain has no link to the racing industry.
This is beyond absurd.No link except Darley ownes both.Would that be considered a link? The Godolphin owner is the Darley owner is the owner of the drugs.Would that be considered a link.Sheik Mohammad is sitting on top of the manure pile right now.And the BHA does not see a link.How blind can one insist on being?For starters the BHA need to put the Sungate Report into the public domain. I’m not holding my breath though.
Has confidence in the BHA ever been lower? We were promised a bright new dawn with Bittar but all we see are cover ups.
Attracting and maintaining owners and racegoers isn’t going to be easy in this climate. I am seriously considering spending my leisure pound elsewhere and I don’t seem to be the only one given the comments I regularly read on this and other forums. Have the BHA thought about this?
For starters the BHA need to put the Sungate Report into the public domain. I’m not holding my breath though.
Please don’t hold your breath – you’ll do yourself a serious damage.
It will not be published because too many "big" trainers are named in it.
For starters the BHA need to put the Sungate Report into the public domain. I’m not holding my breath though.
Please don’t hold your breath – you’ll do yourself a serious damage.
It will not be published because too many "big" trainers are named in it.
So do we have a level playing field at present?
Or do the "big" trainers hold an "advantage" over the "small" trainers?
What should the "small" trainers do – get on with it or push the BHA to get a grip of the situation?
So do we have a level playing field at present?
It’s become abundantly clear this year that the playing field is anything but level.
The "A" in the BHA certainly doesn’t stand for "Authority" more like "Appeasers"
Or do the "big" trainers hold an "advantage" over the "small" trainers?
And the "big" owners too!!!
What should the "small" trainers do – get on with it or push the BHA to get a grip of the situation?
Sadly, shut up and know their place – break ranks and you will be totally screwed. Gerard Butler "broke ranks" in the Sungate affair and boy is he going to pay the price.
From the Guardian
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Horse racingEndurance trainer at Sheikh’s farm dispels concerns after drug seizure
• Jaume Punti Dachs says veterinary products were above board
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The Guardian, Wednesday 11 September 2013 16.57 EDTDoncaster Racecourse
Justineo, ridden by William Buick, wins the Crown Hotel Bawtry Scarborough Stakes at Doncaster. Photograph: Anna Gowthorpe/PAJaume Punti Dachs, an endurance horse trainer based at a Newmarket stable owned by Sheikh Mohammed’s Darley Stud operation, said on Wednesday evening that there was no "wilful or careless wrongdoing" at his yard following the seizure of a consignment of veterinary products last month.
The Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs visited Moorley Farm East in Newmarket and removed 124 veterinary products, including injectables, anaesthetics, anti-inflammatories and antibiotics. The British Horseracing Authority has insisted the drugs were not linked to Sheikh Mohammed’s thoroughbred racing and breeding operations, which were engulfed in scandal earlier this year when Mahmood al-Zarooni, a trainer for the Sheikh’s Godolphin racing operation, was found to have used anabolic steroids on more than 20 of his horses.
In a statement released on Wednesday evening Punti Dachs said that "Defra … searched the premises and found normal medications that I brought to the UK and they confiscated them because they are not licensed in this country."
The statement added: "These visits [from Defra] are natural/routine. These are all substances that you can buy in the UK, under a different trade name, and are standard
medicine cabinet in any stables. I know that these medicines are lawfully and legally used in the UK.
"However, the make/labels of the veterinary medicines in this case may be slightly different as they were purchased by me outside the UK and the authorities know that. They explained to me after their visit how to source the same medicines at the Newmarket Equine Hospital and the following day I went and got them. In the circumstances VMD [the Veterinary Medicines Directorate] were entirely entitled to confiscate the products. I am fully satisfied with their actions."
I really am not surprised , those of you from horse backgrounds will know just how much dope is in polo for example. The availability isn’t an issue.
Why do everything behind closed doors, it isn’t very democratic. Yet we like to believe there is a fundamental difference between the Indian Horse Authority and our own. The examples are different yet the principal is the same.
People wonder why newcomers are reluctant to follow racing, if people who do follow racing can’t get to the bottom of things what is the point?
Glad to see that the glaring faux pas of appointing his missus to investigate this continuing mess has been apparently ditched in favour of Lord Stevens being appointed.
Talk about bringing racing into disrepute; it was even mentioned at length on Radio 6 the other day [although it was more to do with Princess Haya’s title of ‘junior wife’].
At least someone stepped in to save the head of the "junior wife". Racing is not without its share of "junior" wives.For those who cannot remember Sir Henry got into trouble with the Sheik when his wife (Henry’s) offered an opinion on the Godolphin horses.That was the start of the trouble for Sir Henry.So what weight would a "junior wife" carry when offering an opinion on the doping scandal? The fact that the Sheik did not see the inappropriateness of appointing his own family to investigate his own horses tell another story about Godolphin.
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