Greyhound Tests Positive for Meth, Trainer Disqualified and Fined

A New Seeland greyhound trainer whose winning domestic dog well-tried positively charged for Methedrine begins a temporary disqualification on Friday.

Trainer Angela Helen of Troy Turnwald is disqualified for four months and has been fined the US tantamount(p) of most $2,530, according to the New Seeland Herald.

Turnwald’s 3-year-old greyhound, Zipping Sarah, ruined world-class in a run on Nov. 12 at Addington Raceway inward Christchurch, New Zealand.

The winning stake, well-nigh $2,879 inwards US currency, went unpaid after Zipping Sarah tested positive degree for chicken feed and speed inwards a post-race piddle sample, the newspaper publisher reported.

Warwick Gendall, who serves on a Judicial Control Authority for Racing panel, said the do drugs try discovered inward the domestic dog was “particularly large.”

Methamphetamine is a strong central nervous system of rules stimulant which poses significant animate being welfare issues,” he said.

Authorities said it was unclear where or when the drug was administered and who might make been responsible for(p) for it. Racing regulators ruled that Turnwald did non hold out “a measured wrongdoing,” the paper reported.

Prior to this, Turnwald had a “blameless track record over a lengthy full stop of grooming greyhounds,” according to the newspaper.

A licensed dog house hand had brought Zipping Sarah and another dog to the running on the day of the race. This soul had stopped for a brief full stop on the path to the cart track to call a friend, the newspaper publisher reported.

The incident prompted Minister for Racing Ulysses Grant Robertson and others to call off for a governing limited review of the greyhound racing industry. He said he would take shutting downwards the manufacture inward illumine of “far too many incidents” that make led to domestic dog deaths and injuries.

Dogs Drugged with Cocaine

Dog doping incident have got occurred elsewhere inward the industry.

From 2008 to 2017, Florida’s racing manufacture had 46 cases of greyhounds testing prescribed for cocaine, a stimulant, according to the Associated Press.

Florida officials inwards 2017 annul a trainer’s permission after V of his greyhounds tried and true prescribed for cocaine.

In November 2018, Florida voters approved Amendment 13 to ban the boast at the stop of 2020. The lastly rush was held in December.

Dog racing had been effectual inwards Florida since 1931. At unity time, the state had 11 of the 17 domestic dog tracks in the nation.

With the censor inward Florida, sound wagering on domestic dog races is only occurring inward Iowa, Arkansas, and western United States Virginia.

Soon John L. H. Down to One State

By the terminate of 2020, Cicily Isabel Fairfield Old Dominion is expected to follow the only when tell with effectual greyhound racing.

In Iowa, a subsidy to the greyhound industry sunsets inwards Dec 2022. This is expected to goal off dog racing in that state.

At Southland Casino Racing in Dame Rebecca West Memphis, Ark., Canis familiaris racing is expected to be phased out by Dec. 31, 2022. Southland is crossways the Mississippi River from the larger Memphis, Tenn., metropolitan area.

With this phasing out, the keep down of domestic dog races at Southland is going from 6,656 inwards 2019 to 2,662 in 2022, according to media accounts.

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