In Oct. 2007 in CT a horse by the name of Eastern Delight won the classic race. The purse was a guarantee 500k. We beat the heavily favorite Confucius Say quite easily. Unfortunately, 2 weeks later the horse comes back with a posititve for caffeine. The frozen sample sent off to Ohio and the plasma came back higher than what it should have been. The trainer has already been suspended and is back in action now. It was his first posititve as a trainer and it was the 1st case of caffeine since 1999 at CT. Of course they are in the appeals process gatthering as much information which hopefully can become an asset to them. By the way, the 2 horses met a couple of weeks later and Eastern Delight outfinished Confucius again.
Currently, I'm trying to search and find documentation regarding caffeine postitives where trainers have been exonerated.
This link was written by RICHARD ENG.
http://www.reviewjournal.com/lvrj_ho.../10272189.html you have to scroll down some until you see a name by the name of Debbie Miller who exonerated these trainers. It's a paragraph at most and I wish Richard Eng or Debbie Miller can be reached to have additional details of the case. I believe the case was called "The Bee Pollen" case.
There are many ways caffeine can get into a horse from human sweat to contaminated feed. What would be helpful to me is to find other trainers that have won their case. Here are two other links that were helpful.
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases...0501082822.htm
http://www.nakoersen.nl/persbericht/budhraja.pdf
If anyone comes across something similiar it would be greatly appreciated. You can either post on this thread or through pm.
Thank you kindly,
jotb
