Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Thursday, 8 July 2021

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine

Alleged Issues in the Horse Racing Industry: Discussion

Dr. Lynn Hillyer:

As in any anti-doping case, it is investigated as thoroughly as we possibly can. I work with my colleagues in the security division to interview and to assess the information. My part, as one would expect, it more limited to the horse side, the drugs side and the chemistry side. In that particular case, I assessed the amount of acepromazine, ACP, present in the horse in the sample against research data to give us an idea of the window of time within which we believed it would have been exposed to or administered the drug and so on. CCTV clearly was not in place and I am not going to go back over that ground again. What I will say on CCTV, having been involved for 15-odd years across the water in anti-doping investigation------

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