All Breeders’ Cup Tests Come Back Clean

All samples collected from 2021 Breeders’ Cup horses have been cleared by the Kenneth L. Maddy Equine Analytical Chemistry Laboratory on the College of California, Davis.

All horses competing in Breeders’ Cup races this previous weekend at Del Mar have been examined for TCO2 ranges in blood. Put up-race testing was carried out for prohibited medicine on the primary 4 finishers in all Breeders’ Cup races and any further random horses chosen by the stewards in keeping with California Horse Racing Board protocol. Put up-race testing was performed on each blood and urine samples. The GI Breeders’ Cup Basic was received by Knicks Go (Paynter).

The Maddy Laboratory’s customary protocols search for all kinds of compounds of concern for racing integrity, similar to anabolic steroids, beta2 (b2)agonists, selective androgen receptor modulators, erythropoietin, and different comparable doping brokers. All post-race samples have been examined for cobalt. Routine testing in California exceeds nationwide graded stakes testing requirements. The Maddy Laboratory is accredited by the Racing Medicine and Testing Consortium and the one laboratory within the Western Hemisphere licensed by the Worldwide Federation of Horseracing Authorities.

The Maddy Laboratory cleared TCO2 samples on 148 horses that competed in 14 Breeders’ Cup races together with 69 horses that competed in different races on the 2 Breeders’ Cup playing cards. The big fields have been fashionable with the general public, as the overall all-sources common-pool deal with for the two-day World Championships was $182,908,409, a brand new document for the two-day occasion.

There have been no equine fatalities within the races nor any observable accidents to the horses. Carl Woods, the assistant starter who was injured on the beginning gate Nov. 5, has knowledgeable the CHRB that he’s wonderful and again to work.

Jockeys rode below extraordinarily restrictive guidelines governing using the driving crop. Three jockeys violated these guidelines and obtained fines totaling $11,000. All jockeys have been suggested by the stewards previous to the races that the crop guidelines can be strictly enforced and that fines can be elevated.

All Breeders’ Cup horses competed with out the administration of furosemide, or Lasix.

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