• Tattersalls have never had a positive test on one of their yearlings[br]• The test will be made available at all yearling salesThe sales ring here at Tattersalls,where a yearling filly was sold for more than £2m on Wednesday, is a plot for wildly unrealistic dreaming. tough-nosed reality takes hold in a box approximately 50 yards away, and where newly purchased animals have blood samples taken that will be tested for anabolic steroids.
Such tests have been a feature of yearling sales in this country for around a decade but this year,for the first time, they are being organised by racing’s regulator, and the British Horseracing Authority. Previously,the testing was offered by the sales companies according to standards they themselves chose. Tattersalls proudly report they have never had a positive.
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Source: theguardian.com