Clifton owner talks of faith in Paget

Jonathan Paget too Clifton Promise. © Mike Bain

The possessor of the 2 horses at the middle of positive doping tests reacted to the word alongside “absolute daze too absolute disbelief”.

Frances Stead owns both Jonathan “Jock” Paget’s Badminton too Burghley winner Clifton Promise too Kevin McNab’s Clifton Pinot, both of whom returned positive tests to the banned core Reserpine from samples taken  following the Burghley Equus caballus trials. Clifton Pinot finished 14th at the event.

Both horses get got been provisionally suspended past times the FEI from contest for 2 months, too the riders, equally the “Persons Responsible”, get got likewise been provisionally suspended until farther notice.

Paget’s recess puts his Rolex Grand Slam contestation at risk. The $US350,000 championship tin travel won solely past times riders who win Badminton, Burghley too the Kentucky Three-Day-Event consecutively.

Stead, who is based inwards France, told New Zealand’s Radio Live Sport that she was “100% sure, non simply 99.9% but 100% certain that Jock would never knowinging or intentionally administer whatever prohibited core to Clifton Promise or whatever other horse. He is simply non that form of guy”.

She said her initial reaction was that “there has to travel something that went incorrect inwards the system”.

She has spoken to Paget several times inwards the past times few days, too he was “as shell-shocked equally everyone else”.

Stead said that from what she had heard from veterinarians, Reserpine was a core “that is hardly always used inwards horses equally such, too if it was used inwards the past times it was used equally a sedative”.

“We get got a Equus caballus hither who went circular the cross-country, in all probability the toughest cross-country class inwards the world, too went circular real fast. The terminal affair you lot would role to attempt to heighten its functioning is a sedative. The scenario simply does non brand sense.”

New Zealand eventer Andrew Nicholson, who finished mo too tertiary behind Paget at Burghley, told Radio Live Sport: “He’s real upfront, real serious close what he does, but a real genuine person. I believe there’s no means he’s knowingly gone too done it, too I’m a large benefactor if he tests positive on the B sample.”

 

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