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Published Date: 04 July 2009 NICKY Henderson has been handed a three-month ban and fined a record £40,000 over a failed drugs test involving a horse he trains for The Queen. The leading National Hunt trainer was last Monday found guilty of using a prohibited substance on The Queen's mare Moonlit Path at Huntingdon in February. Henderson attended a personal hearing on Thursday night, when pleas of mitigation were entered to a British Horseracing Authority panel, and learned of his punishment yesterday morning. The 58-year-old handler faced a possible disqualification from the training ranks, but will instead be unable to run any of his horses from 11 July to 10 October. He has also been hit with a record fine imposed on any British trainer. A BHA panel, chaired by Tim Charlton QC, concluded that disqualifying Henderson was... [read full story]
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