Reuters: Sports News: Trainer Al Zarooni gets eight-year ban for doping horses

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Trainer Al Zarooni gets eight-year ban for doping horses Apr 25th 2013, 18:47 LONDON | Thu Apr 25, 2013 2:47pm EDT LONDON (Reuters) - Godolphin trainer Mahmood Al Zarooni was disqualified for eight years by the British Horseracing Authority on Thursday for doping racehorses in a scandal that has caused serious embarrassment to Dubai ruler Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid al-Maktoum. Eleven horses trained by Al Zarooni in Newmarket in southern England for owner Sheikh Mohammed tested positive for anabolic steroids, including ethylestrenol and stanozolol. Al Zarooni, who won the Dubai World Cup - the world's richest horse race - for Godolphin in 2012 with Monterosso, also admitted administering prohibited substances to four other horses under his care. "We believe that the eight-year disqualification issued to Mahmood Al Zarooni by the disciplinary panel, together with the six month racing restriction placed on the horses in question by the BHA, will serve to reassure the public, and the sport's participants, that use of performance-enhancing substances in British Racing will not be tolerated and that the sport has in place a robust and effective anti-doping and medication control program," BHA chief executive Paul Bittar said in a statement. Earlier, the BHA said the 15 horses Emirati Al Zarooni admitted doping have been banned from racing for six months. On Tuesday, Al Zarooni said he regretted making "a catastrophic error". Samples were taken from 45 horses at Godolphin's Moulton Paddocks Stables on April 9. Known as the 'sport of kings', Sheikh Mohammed has become one of the most prominent owners in the sport since he established the Godolphin stables in Dubai and England in 1992. His royal blue silks have won 202 Group One races in 12 different countries. (Writing by Justin Palmer, editing by Pritha Sarkar) Link this Share this Digg this Email Reprints

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