Trainer fined £2,000 after Cheltenham Festival favourite fails drug test
The drug is allowed to be used in horses in training, but must not be present in a horse's system on a raceday
Doping
News on all doping scandals and enquiries taking place in equestrian sport
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Rider stored equine remedy in painkiller bottle: banned for 15 months
An amateur rider who stored a homeopathic remedy in an empty tramadol bottle has been disqualified from competition for 15 months
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Owner’s hairspray causes showjumper’s positive dope test
The rider and the owner’s wife were unaware he was using the product
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Record-breaking jockey apologises over failed drug test
The trailblazing rider has been suspended for four weeks after testing positive for a banned substance
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Dressage riders' suspensions lifted: contamination blamed for positive drug tests
The Court of Arbitration for Sport has also ruled the horses' temporary suspensions be lifted after evidence showed their feed had been contaminated
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14 suspensions lifted amid FEI doping rules shake-up
The FEI has introduced a new "specified substance" category to its anti-doping rules
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Endurance trainer suspended for two years for injecting horses with banned substance
The FEI Tribunal has suspended two UAE riders for one year in the same case
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Seven endurance horses test positive for doping in UAE
All of the horses were taking part in events at the Al Wathba venue in Abu Dhabi when they were tested
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Zero positive dope tests for equestrian sport at Rio Olympics
"To have back-to-back clean Games in London and Rio is something for any sport to be proud of", said FEI president Ingmar De Vos
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'We must now look forward': Any Currency trainer speaks out after Cheltenham Festival disqualification
Martin Keighley said he is looking forward to the next Festival and Any Currency's next run, where he and his team "will be all the more determined to win"
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Any Currency loses Cheltenham Festival title due to prohibited substance
A British Horseracing Authority disciplinary panel has disqualified Any Currency from the race, but ordered that trainer Martin Keighley pay no fine
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Russian riders to miss Rio Paralympics after appeal lost
The Court of Arbitration for Sport has dismissed an appeal by the Russian Paralympic Committee
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FEI bans showjumper and endurance rider for two years; para dressage rider suspended
The identification of banned substances in their horses has lead to the riders being suspended for a two-year period
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Two Russian pentathletes banned from Rio Olympics
The pair will not be allowed to take part in this summer's Games, but the other Russian pentathletes can compete
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Russian riders’ Rio places hang in the balance
A decision is due on whether all Russian athletes will be banned from Rio 2016 following the publication of a report exposing state-sponsored doping
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Team GBR gets pro-active to ensure 'clean sport' in Rio
Find out what efforts Team GBR are taking to ensure the squad doesn't suffer from an accidental positive prohibited substance test in Rio
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Cocaine worth £7.5m found in diamante horse's head
Police in New Zealand discovered the record-breaking haul of the class A drug inside the 400kg sculpture
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Rio drug-testing laboratory's accreditation suspended weeks before Olympics
The World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA) has put a temporary ban on the laboratory from carrying out any anti-doping analysis on blood or urine samples
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Two UAE endurance riders provisionally suspended by FEI
Each of the riders' horses tested positive for the same prohibited substance, which has never before been found in horses competing under FEI rules
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First anti-doping online learning course launched
A new online e-learning course has been launched to help riders and grooms get up to speed with anti-doping
