HRV stewards warn trainers about plants that can lead to positives

24 December 2020
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Harness Racing Victoria (HRV) Stewards alert trainers to the risk posed by some plant material growing on or in the vicinity of training facilities, which if ingested by a horse may result in a horse returning a positive swab to a prohibited substance.  

In recent years a number of positive swabs have been reported to harness racing authorities, which investigations have established may have been attributed to the ingestion of specific plant material by horses.

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