The handler was found to have breached two rules in relation to 12 of his horses testing positive for steroids.
TRAINER LUKE COMER has been handed a three-year ban and faces costs in excess of €755,000 following an Irish Horseracing Regulatory Board hearing.
They all returned positive results, with a nine-day hearing subsequently taking place in May this year.While Comer “acknowledged the presence of the prohibited substances” on the first day of the hearing, he “categorically denies that either he or any of his staff were involved in doping the animals”, according to the IHRB report into the case.
However, it said that “after considering a great deal of evidence” it was “unable to say, on the balance of probability, how the horses came to test positive for the PAAT substances”.
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