Moonlit case puts trainers on red alert

Henderson was using prohibited drugs on his horses on a regular basis Despite a claim by John McCririck yesterday that Nicky Henderson had been "condemned in a secret court in a tribunal, of which we have not seen the evidence", the full written reasons why a panel chaired by an senior QC found him in breach of the anti-doping rules are available on the internet for anyone to inspect, and certainly make for very interesting reading. The facts are these. Henderson asked his vet to inject one of his horses – a horse owned by the Queen, though that is a side issue – with tranexamic acid (TA) on the day of a race. When Moonlit Path tested positive, he claimed he did not know TA was a prohibited substance (even though nothing should be given to a horse bar normal food and water on the day of a race). Then he said it was... [read full story]                    

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