Reply With QuoteIs it just a coincidence that we have a new leader and now this trainer gets a positive ? Must be !
The suggestion that these old positives have made their way out of someone's waste paper basket is getting louder and louder
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Is it just a coincidence that we have a new leader and now this trainer gets a positive ? Must be !
Don't die wondering !
Reckon HRV have left themselves somewhat open on this one, re: consistency of decisions.
Two arsenic positives announced on the same day.
One a high profile trainer and the other with all due respect, someone most people would have never heard of.
Will be interesting to see how each case is actioned and pans out taking past cases into account. We've all seen it before.
The big name ends up with a slap on the wrist. The no name gets the book thrown at them and the authorities then spruik about how tough they are on drug cheats.
Victoria’s racing integrity commissioner is auditing drug swabbing across the three racing codes amid concerns that tests are being destroyed or going missing, and that positive drug tests are not being prosecuted
http://www.harnesslink.com/Internati...wab-compliance
They are getting serious and looking in that waste paper bin
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nsw should do the same thing if the rumors are anything to go by.
Looks like the participants were right about certain stables getting special treatment and other integrity issues.
The main thing this new board must do is listen and communicate with trainers, drivers , owners , punters and breeders. When these people start to believe that the industry is clean and fair and only then can we start to move forward and prosper again.
Don't die wondering !
A Victorian greyhound tested positive to Arsenic in January 2016 and stewards opened an inquiry within four weeks. The sample was tested by Racing Analytical Services Limited.
This would have to be the stewards' pick at Melton tonight
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This HRV RAD board hearing makes for interesting reading on the arsenic issue
http://www.harnesslink.com/Australia...g---Des-Hilton
"As background, with the acquisition of a machine capable of testing for cobalt by RASL (preventing need to test for samples to be sent interstate or overseas), in June 2015 the laboratory (RASL) were also able to commence the routine testing of all collected urine samples for other metals including arsenic. With a number of samples above the threshold becoming apparent in racing jurisdictions, and common explanations as to the cause of such irregularities provided, the University of Melbourne were engaged to conduct an administration trial by RASL, HRV and other racing authorities that had also been screening raceday samples for the presence of arsenic.
At the RAD Board hearing, in addition to the consideration of statements from HRV Stewards and RASL, the HRV RAD Board considered a report from Associate Professor Cate Steel and Professor Ted Whittem from the University of Melbourne which centred on the extensive research conducted by the University of Melbourne where a trial was conducted to research the levels of arsenic in horses that had ingested a known amount of CCA treated timber sawdust.
The trial revealed that it is a possibility that a horse could have a urinary level of arsenic that exceeds the threshold concentration if it chews and ingests a sufficiently large quantity of CCA treated timber.
Further studies will be done in the future in an attempt to distinguish between the inorganic and organic forms of arsenic."
"The RAD Board also considered that the arsenic threshold had been developed a number of decades ago in Hong Kong in response to the suggestion (at the time) that horses were being ‘stopped’ through the use or arsenic rather than any suggested enhancement of performance."
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