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    Gingell warned off.

    ................for milkshaking.


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    Gingell warned off over 'milkshake' offence

    BY GRAHAM GREEN4.12PM 11 JUN 2009

    MATT GINGELL has been warned off for two years after becoming the first person in British racing found guilty of a doping offence involving sodium bicarbonate, widely known as a 'milkshake'.

    Gingell, who relinquished his training licence a fortnight ago, admitted offences under rule 53 - dealing with positive drug tests - and rule 200, which covers any attempt to administer a prohibited substance to affect a horse's performance, when he appeared at a BHA inquiry on Thursday.

    The test on his mare, Kassuta, was taken before she ran in a juvenile novice hurdle at Fakenham in November 2007, in which she finished third.

    Earlier that year the sport's regulator increased pre-race testing, and while not saying so explicitly, it was widely assumed they were primarily aiming at finding evidence of milkshaking, which reduces a horse's production of lactic acid and enables it to run for longer without feeling pain. It can also mask the presence of other performance-enhancing drugs.

    Gingell, who will not be allowed to go racing as a disqualified person, was also ordered to pay £2,500 towards the cost of the hearing.
    Ah! but a man's reach should exceed his grasp......

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    Quote Originally Posted by Colin Phillips View Post
    ................for milkshaking.


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    Gingell warned off over 'milkshake' offence

    BY GRAHAM GREEN4.12PM 11 JUN 2009

    MATT GINGELL has been warned off for two years after becoming the first person in British racing found guilty of a doping offence involving sodium bicarbonate, widely known as a 'milkshake'.

    Gingell, who relinquished his training licence a fortnight ago, admitted offences under rule 53 - dealing with positive drug tests - and rule 200, which covers any attempt to administer a prohibited substance to affect a horse's performance, when he appeared at a BHA inquiry on Thursday.

    The test on his mare, Kassuta, was taken before she ran in a juvenile novice hurdle at Fakenham in November 2007, in which she finished third.

    Earlier that year the sport's regulator increased pre-race testing, and while not saying so explicitly, it was widely assumed they were primarily aiming at finding evidence of milkshaking, which reduces a horse's production of lactic acid and enables it to run for longer without feeling pain. It can also mask the presence of other performance-enhancing drugs.

    Gingell, who will not be allowed to go racing as a disqualified person, was also ordered to pay £2,500 towards the cost of the hearing.
    Lifetime bans for all cheats, no exceptions imo
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    The effects as described could explain sudden improvement in some horses about which I've had suspicions for some time.
    Illegitimi non carborundum


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    Quote Originally Posted by PRICEWISE2008 View Post
    Lifetime bans for all cheats, no exceptions imo
    Would tend to agree -- however, the person has to be proven beyond reasonable doubt to have cheated & the offence of cheating rather well-defined.

    Best keep it all clear-cut.
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    Wow. Imagine how **** he'd be if he wasn't using performing enhancing drugs.

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    This sentence hands out a clear message to others using the same approach. Don't get caught but if you do it's a long way from being the end of the world.
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    Would he have bee warned off if he hadn't already quit?
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    Quote Originally Posted by davidjohnson View Post
    Wow. Imagine how **** he'd be if he wasn't using performing enhancing drugs.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Honest Tom View Post
    This sentence hands out a clear message to others using the same approach. Don't get caught but if you do it's a long way from being the end of the world.
    Illegitimi non carborundum


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    I like who he openly admitted to milkshaking - yes Matt we know the effects, that's why it's banned!!!!!!!!!
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    "My milkshake wins for the boys in the yard
    Damn right, it's benter than yours........."

    I'll get me coat.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Grasshopper View Post
    "My milkshake wins for the boys in the yard
    Damn right, it's benter than yours........."

    I'll get me coat.

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    Quote Originally Posted by rorydelargy View Post
    Would he have bee warned off if he hadn't already quit?
    Would it not be more like, "he quit in the hope it would prevent him being warned off"

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    Milkshaking was the theme of tonight's episode of "Law and Order" on Ch.5.
    Power is good. Control is better. (Lenin)

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    For want of starting a different thread:

    https://www.racingpost.com/news/inte...-guilty/330603

    And I am sure there are more both in Australia, the US and probably over here. A vet friend of ours said he is convinced that there are a certain number of trainers using drugs that at present are under the radar of the testing systems currently in place.
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    I'd be shocked if there weren't.
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    Quote Originally Posted by mrussell View Post
    Would tend to agree -- however, the person has to be proven beyond reasonable doubt to have cheated & the offence of cheating rather well-defined.

    Best keep it all clear-cut.
    Impossible to keep it clear cut....how do you stop a trainer sending one out unfit.........AOB does it and no one says ****
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