Godolphin & testing in the UK

[magicnight]

Some interesting stuff from The Guardian:

Q How common is \'testing in training\'?

A About 7,500 horses are sampled for testing immediately after a race in Britain each year, roughly 8% of the total annual starters. The British Horseracing Authority (BHA) does not release details of the number of horses tested in their stables but Zarooni would have been warned in 2012, after two of his horses tested positive for a painkiller, that he could expect a visit from the security department\'s testing team at some point over the next12 months.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/sport/2013/apr/23/doping-horse-racing?INTCMP=ILCNETTXT3487

So, the BHA does OOC testing, but they won\'t say how much or how often. Why do I have the feeling they don\'t do it very often?

And Zarooni is either a dumbass, or, he thought Godolphin was bulletproof. Two race day positives for painkillers and a warning that he will get a visit sometime in the next twelve months and a quarter of his horses that were sampled still come up positive for steroids.