No drug breaches in NZ’s 2012 thoroughbred racing season

New Zealand Thoroughbred Racing says it supports the Racing Integrity Unit’s drug-testing policy, which includes sending roughly samples overseas for testing.

No thoroughbreds tested positive for whatever banned substances during the final racing season.

NZTR Chief Executive Greg Purcell said his organisation had invested in footing course of report integrity systems too at that spot was  a strong compliance and commitment yesteryear thoroughbred racehorse trainers too veterinarians to ensure horses were presented to races too trials drug free.

Despite this extensive drug testing regime, no thoroughbred racehorses returned a positive drug exam in the 2012 racing season.

As live of its testing regime, the Racing Integrity Unit, inward add-on to drug testing undertaken yesteryear the New Zealand Racing Laboratory, forthwith sends roughly post-race samples to Hong Kong for additional testing.

Whilst all xviii thoroughbred samples tested inward Hong Kong conduct maintain proven negative, iii harness samples conduct maintain returned positive samples to arsenic too capsaicin.

However, roughly concerns conduct maintain been raised yesteryear trainers virtually the potential presence of infinitesimal trace elements of arsenic given New Zealand’s volcanic geology too dependence on tanalised timber inward stables and yard fencing, too capsaicin given its inclusion inward roughly pastes used inward stables too Equus caballus floats to discourage horses from biting forest too chewing wood, metal, rugs too tails.

“The add-on of drug testing yesteryear the Hong Kong Jockey Club laboratory is to deter whatever potential drug cheats rather than punishing the innocent,” Purcell said.

“Of the xviii thoroughbred horses tested inward Hong Kong, none conduct maintain tested positive to whatever substances”, he said.

“NZTR is committed to supporting the Racing Integrity Unit too the New Zealand Equine Veterinary Association to ensure the efficacy of prescribed withholding periods for therapeutic substances administered yesteryear veterinary surgeons.”

The thoroughbred racing manufacture spends to a greater extent than than $3.4 1000000 annually – virtually v per cent of the code’s total funding – to ensure the integrity of the sport inward New Zealand.

In 2012, NZTR contributed:

• $2.1 1000000 to the Racing Integrity Unit which undertakes race twenty-four hr menstruum stewardship too non-raceday investigations;
• $0.7 1000000 to the Judicial Control Authority which rules on protests, penalties too appeals;
• $0.6 1000000 to the New Zealand Racing Laboratory for drug testing.

For the flavor ended July 31, at that spot were 3341 thoroughbred horses tested inward competition (compared to 3349 the previous year). In add-on 982 thoroughbreds (compared to 492 inward the previous year) were dependent area to pre-race TCO2 tests.

 

 

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