A seven-time Cheltenham Festival winning trainer is to lose his licence for three months after an Irish Horse Racing Regulatory Board appeals committee hearing on Thursday.
His 13-8 favourite and easy winner tested positive for lidocaine, a local anaesthetic prohibited on race day, and was disqualified. Cartrophen has anti-inflammatory and analgesic properties and was said by the IHRB's head of anti-doping Dr Lynn Hillyer to be "used to treat osteoarthritis in horses" – twice by two separate vets, on the day before the race.
In December he was also fined €1,000 for failing to maintain a complete medicines register at his Co Meath yard.
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