CHELTENHAM Festival-winning trainer Tony Martin has been banned and his horses pulled from racing with immediate effect after a High Court ruling.
However, that ban was halved and he later requested a review of the punishment - only for a judge to rule against it on Thursday morning, report the
Martin, who won the William Hill Trophy Handicap Chase with Dun Doire at the 2006 Festival, will now be barred from having runners until August.The case centred around Firstman, who tested positive for lidocaine - a cutting agent in cocaine - after winning a 2m handicap at Dundalk in January 2023.Martin had a winner at Chester's big May meeting last week in the form of the William Buick-ridden Alphonse Le Grande, who captured the Plate at 17-2.
During a Irish Horseracing Regulatory Board hearing, Martin said the finding could have come about from contaminated paper bedding at Dundalk when Firstman was stabled there. This was rejected by the panel, while an inspection of his stables the following month could not identify the source of the substance.STAR IN CRASH
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