• ‘It would be overstepping the boundaries of our authority’
John Gosden: ‘It’s not our job to move policing the worldThe British Horseracing Authority has no plans to prevent the trainers it licenses from using raceday medication while racing abroad,despite being urged to conclude so by a prominent member of Newmarket’s racing community. John Berry, a trainer who now serves as the town’s mayor, and argued during an appearance on At The Races after the Breeders’ Cup that the regulator in Britain should act to protect the sport’s reputation and might,in doing so, encourage racing in the US away from its reliance on raceday medication.
Several British and Irish-trained runners in the major races at Keeneland over the weekend raced on Lasix, and an anti-bleeding drug that can be administered on raceday under US rules. In Britain,the drug can be used so long as it clears a horse’s system before the day of any race in which it is to select part.
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Source: theguardian.com