Endurance rider banned over steroid breach
An endurance passenger from the United Arab Emirates has received a two-year ban from the FEI for a doping infraction, adding some other illustration to the Middle East’s pitiable tape of endurance drug breaches inwards recent years.
The case, involving Mohd Ali Al Shafar, is certain to add together fuel farther to the contention simply about fracture rates in addition to doping breaches centred on the Middle East.
Complaints from several European national federations get got resulted inwards several FEI initiatives, but some officials believe the globe governing trunk is non moving swiftly enough.
The illustration involving Al Shafar relates to his win on Feb sixteen inwards a CEI3* 160km President’s Cup race inwards Abu Dhabi. His mount, Orman De Cardonne, took the victory inwards vi hours, vi minutes in addition to 24 seconds, clocking an average speed of 26kmh for the race.
The horse’s H5N1 blood sample, taken that day, tested positive for an anabolic steroid, 17-alpha-hydroxyprogesterone hexanoate, the FEI tribunal, comprising, Randi Haukebo, Jens Adolphsen in addition to Henrik Arle was told.
Al Shafar requested analysis of the B sample at a dissimilar laboratory. This was carried out in addition to was similarly constitute to move positive for the drug.
Al Shafar was asked to explain, in addition to inwards submissions to the FEI said that no medication containing the gist inwards inquiry had been available at the AI Reeh endurance stable, where the Equus caballus had been stabled.
Al Shafar said that, inwards general, no medication containing whatsoever prohibited substances had been at his disposal at the stable, equally he in addition to everybody else at the stable strongly believed inwards truthful in addition to fair sporting activities.
He said he did non wishing to supply whatsoever farther explanations regarding the positive finding to the tribunal, but asked that it took into consideration that no Equus caballus from the AI Reeh endurance stable had e'er tested positive inwards the past.
“The court finds that the PR has non provided whatsoever explanations on how the 17-alpha-hydroxyprogesterone hexanoate entered the horse’s system,” the court said inwards its Oct 22 ruling.
It disqualified Orman De Cardonne in addition to Al Shafar from the competition, ruling that in addition to all medals, points in addition to prize coin won must move forfeited.
It noted that Al Shafar was a outset offender.
He was banned from contest for ii years in addition to ordered to pay i thou Swiss Francs towards legal costs, equally good equally the toll of the B-Sample analysis.
Al Shafar has a correct of appeal.
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