Stewards’ wrap: four trainers found guilty over positive swabs

By Katherine Ernst

TONY Interligi has been fined after being found guilty of a breach of the prohibited substance rule, GAR 83(2)(3).

The charge was issued after Interligi’s greyhound, Inter Sandra, returned a positive urine sample to the category two prohibited substance, piroxicam, when it was presented to compete at Geelong on August 9, 2016.

A non-steroidal, anti-inflammatory drug, piroxicam was believed to have shown in the sample after Interligi admitting to rubbing a gel sold as ‘Feldene’ onto the greyhound a day or two prior to the event in question.

Interligi plead guilty to the charge, with stewards deciding to impose a $1500 fine – Read full article

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