Why Trainers End Up Guilty to Positive Swabs?

Posted by Mary in Greyhound Betting News on 11 25th, 2008 | no responses

Due to the many cases of disqualifications of both trainers and greyhounds in relation to being guilty to positive swabs, we can’t avoid now to ask ourselves, why is this happening? Why do trainers end up being guilty to positive swabs?

According to some studies, there could be benefits for greyhound owners or trainers in giving their dogs some swabs to enhance their performance. Usually few swabs of certain drugs like Theobromine and Dexamethasone involve cases of positive swabs nowadays.

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Fine and Disqualification

From the notes of Greyhound Racing Victoria (GRV), “Greyhounds must be allowed to compete on their merits. Trainers and owners must be allowed to compete in the knowledge that they will only be beaten on merit, and not by a greyhound which has been given a performance enhancing substance. Similarly people betting on greyhound races must be able to be confident that the greyhound they back will perform on its merits. There is no room in the industry for cheats. In addition, for animal welfare reasons, greyhounds should not be raced if they require pain killing or other drugs to optimize performance”.

Thus, although there is no clear, exact reason behind why trainers end up guilty to positive swabs, authorities has already done necessary actions by imposing a rule on positive swabs which could lead to a substantial fine for the trainer and a disqualification possibly for life for the trainer as well as to his or her greyhound.

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