It's Flu(methasone) season

THE STIPENDIARY STEWARDS REPORTED:
a) BARTHOLOMEUS (S Brown), the winner, was selected for the taking of specimens for analysis. Stable Employee H van der Westhuizen (Jnr), acting on behalf of Trainer S Botha, was advised (DR).
When questioned regarding this gelding’s improved performance, Trainer S Botha could offer no suitable explanation. Trainer S Botha was advised that this gelding’s future races will be monitored.

Trainer S Botha was charged with a contravention of Rule 73.2.4 in that he was the Trainer responsible for the horse BARTHOLOMEUS when a specimen which was collected from this horse after the running of the 3rd race at Turffontein Racecourse on 2 November 2020, disclosed upon analysis the presence of Flumethasone (Class 4) which is a prohibited substance.
Trainer Botha signed an Admission of Guilt and a fine of R23 000 was imposed.
Furthermore, BARTHOLOMEUS is disqualified as the winner of the above race in terms of Rule 72.3.2 and the provisions of Rule 67.7.8 shall apply.


VAAL RACECOURSE, 5 NOVEMBER 2020

RACE 1 : WELCOME TO THE VAAL WORK RIDERS MAIDEN PLATE (F & M) : 1400M : (294)

THE STIPENDIARY STEWARDS REPORTED:
a) TWICE THE ACT (+P Mlangeni), the winner, was selected for the taking of specimens for analysis. Trainer M N Houdalakis advised (GF).

Trainer M N Houdalakis was charged with a contravention of Rule 73.2.4 in that he was the Trainer responsible for the horse TWICE THE ACT when a specimen which was collected from this horse after the running of the 1st race at the Vaal Racecourse on 5 November 2020, disclosed upon analysis the presence of Flumethasone (Class 4) which is a prohibited substance.
Trainer Houdalakis signed an Admission of Guilt and a fine of R23 000 was imposed.
Furthermore, TWICE THE ACT is disqualified as the winner of the above race in terms of Rule 72.3.2 and the provisions of Rule 67.7.8 shall apply.


VAAL RACECOURSE, 9 NOVEMBER 2020

RACE 4 : TAB PAYS THE FULL DIVIDEND, NO LIMITS WORK RIDERS
MAIDEN PLATE : 1200M (315)

THE STIPENDIARY STEWARDS REPORTED:
a) FORBE’S QUARRY (+I Lukhele), the winner, was selected for the taking of specimens for analysis. Trainer S Botha advised (AH).

Trainer S Botha was charged with a contravention of Rule 73.2.4 in that he was the Trainer responsible for the horse FORBE’S QUARRY when a specimen which was collected from this horse after the running of the 4th race at the Vaal Racecourse on 9 November 2020, disclosed upon analysis the presence of Flumethasone (Class 4) which is a prohibited substance.
Trainer Botha signed an Admission of Guilt and a fine of R23 000 was imposed.
Furthermore, FORBE’S QUARRY is disqualified as the winner of the above race in terms of Rule 72.3.2 and the provisions of Rule 67.7.8 shall apply.

wonder who the vet/s are/ is

According to the rules of national and international sport authorities the presence of a forbidden substance in equine as well as in human sports is controlled under the policy of zero tolerance. That means that the qualitative identification of a banned substance leads to a positive doping case regardless of its quantity, except for a few threshold substances. These rules apply also to therapeutics, which are in common use in routine veterinary management of competition horses. Veterinarians must be aware of the specific detection time of a given therapeutic to avoid an unintentional doping case. Detection times for betamethasone and flumethasone are mainly dependent on the dosage, the formulation and on analytical capabilities. In the present study single intravenous injections of 4.5 to 6.0 ml of Acutol® (4.2 to 5.5 μg/kg flumethasone) and intra-articular injections (and an intra-muscular injection in one horse, respectively) of 2.0 to 5.0 ml of Celestovet® (50 bis 138 μg/kg betamethasone) were administered. For both medications ten different horses were used. Concentrations of betamethasone and flumethasone were determined by a sensitive high performance liquid chromatography-tandem mass spectrometry method. In the Celestovet® study concentrations of betamethasone were still above the limit of detection 45 days after the administration. However, 48 hours after the injection of Acutol® concentrations of flumethasone were below the limit of detection of the employed analytical method.

According to tabgold forbes quarry opened 20/1 and started 13/2 so R23000 fine is ok for them

Oh Yea Racing is such a Clean Sport LoL ... As for S Botha Really ? This is a Laugh a minute . Actually it is disgusting ,,, I have to ask why do we bother using Thoroughbreds for Racing if most of them need Steroids and god alone knows what else they give to them why not just race any breed and dose them up with performance drugs ? Then we can stop having so many Thoroughbreds coming off the track and we would not need the Horse Care Units to save so many ex racehorses from starvation and untold suffering and lets not forget the slaughterhouse .....