[VVV] Well, don't you think it's fair that someone speaks up on their behalf ?
The fact is that the rules as written are hopelessly out-dated and out of sync with the detection capabilities of the modern testing regime.
No more stark an example do we need than this case where a Trainer has scored 12 months for 1 bllionth of 1 gram of Norketamine...one that I understand all & sundry now suspect/believe is as a result of environmental contamination?
Surely it underlines that all pragmatism & reason, like Elvis, has long since left the building?
The fact is the current unacceptable state of affairs allows for overtly harsh penalties to be visited upon Trainers who score therapeutic or environmental positives, positives for substances detected at levels which could not in any way, shape or form be determined by anyone, even the most jaundiced of onlookers, to be pharmacologically active. Whilst that may well be a fair thing as far as you're concerned, as far as I'm concerned it is far from it. The rules governing this particular aspect of racing need to be reviewed & where neccessary changed or if need be totally re-written so as to come into line with 21st century detection capabilities. Successive Administrations & their Regulatory arms on both a State and a National basis have for far too long placed this issue in the too hard basket. Enough is enough.
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