Quote Originally Posted by barney View Post
Noticed it is still in the field and someone on insiderail said was up to Wa stewards and they were going to let it run.

If they do it is just another nail in the coffin of harness racing.The horse didnt give itself the arsenic someone did and to let it race with a positive swab is telling the cheaters keep doing it as we wont act on positives either.
I'm starting to sound like I am on the side of cheats...but...if (key word IF) the arsenic is out of its system now then there is no reason for it to be disallowed to race imo.
Penalties will be way of fines/suspensions and race disqualifications (lose prize-money).

A big flaw in the AFL is no sin binning imo. A sin bin (eg Raglan being DQed from Newcasltle Mile) has benefits for the opposing team; ie they will have 1 extra man for 10mins or whatever (or the 2nd place horse now gets 1st place prizemoney). Whereas a tribunal might give the player 2 weeks, that has benefits for future teams (eg future trainers) who had no harm done by them, yet the victim (eg the guy Barry Hall king hit or Hopoate ...erm we all know what Hoppa done!) gets no benefit from it.
It's not identical comparisons, but there isn't much point disallowing Raglan to start in the WA Cup if arsenic is out of his system imo.