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[johnhannibalsmith]

The duct-tape answer here seems reasonably obvious. If the testing outlined in this case is more or less protocol, then just establish thresholds that disqualify a horse on the final round of out of competition tests from competing. Don't punish the trainer, he/she hasn't failed a test. But the horse is ineligible. Announce the positive. If connections really decide that they want to stay the disqualification by sending the split out and get destroyed in venues like this for the decision to press on and compete, obviously the post-race testing penalties apply, including in my perfect world a much lengthier ban from the event in the future for the connections in general. Horse protected, bettors protected, trainer protected, various acronyms protected. At least a little better than this predictable nonsense when you have out of competition testing being employed as some kind of lame stalking horse.