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- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Governance Issues: Irish Horseracing Regulatory Board (Resumed) (29 Nov 2023)
Paul Daly: I will move on to the anti-doping section of the opening statement and these questions are for Dr. Hillyer. I would like a little bit more information on some of the numbers in the table. Sometimes I find tables difficult to follow but numbers are fine. Were the race-day urine samples all taken from winners or were the horses randomly selected?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Governance Issues: Irish Horseracing Regulatory Board (Resumed) (29 Nov 2023)
Paul Daly: So, with regard to the samples from pre-race horses that would be a mixture of blood and hair, they would come from all different horses.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Governance Issues: Irish Horseracing Regulatory Board (Resumed) (29 Nov 2023)
Paul Daly: Would there ever be a situation where blood and-or urine and hair would be taken from the same horse and that would be included in the table as two different samples?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Governance Issues: Irish Horseracing Regulatory Board (Resumed) (29 Nov 2023)
Paul Daly: But they could come from one horse.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Governance Issues: Irish Horseracing Regulatory Board (Resumed) (29 Nov 2023)
Paul Daly: So, with regard to the table, the number of horses sampled could conceivably be half or one third of the number of samples?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Governance Issues: Irish Horseracing Regulatory Board (Resumed) (29 Nov 2023)
Paul Daly: Is that recorded as three samples in the table?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Governance Issues: Irish Horseracing Regulatory Board (Resumed) (29 Nov 2023)
Paul Daly: I am glad Dr. Hillyer pre-empted her answer by saying that it can be confusing. I am far more confused now than I was before I asked the question. In simple terms, do the number of samples that are mentioned in the table correlate with a number of horses?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Governance Issues: Irish Horseracing Regulatory Board (Resumed) (29 Nov 2023)
Paul Daly: Does Dr. Hillyer have any idea of how many horses have been sampled to give us the 2022 numbers that are set out in the table?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Governance Issues: Irish Horseracing Regulatory Board (Resumed) (29 Nov 2023)
Paul Daly: For example, there is a total of 2,401 race day urine samples, and if we are talking about hair, there are 276 samples. Approximately how many horses would that be?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Governance Issues: Irish Horseracing Regulatory Board (Resumed) (29 Nov 2023)
Paul Daly: It is half or one third?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Governance Issues: Irish Horseracing Regulatory Board (Resumed) (29 Nov 2023)
Paul Daly: The bottom line is that the table we have been given consists of samples.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Governance Issues: Irish Horseracing Regulatory Board (Resumed) (29 Nov 2023)
Paul Daly: To be honest, it is a pity it was not included in the table initially because it is a little misleading. If that information could be forwarded to members, I would appreciate it. I have done my own analysis. At a previous meeting we discussed in detail Dr. Suann's report. I appreciate it was done during the Covid period, but at the time, I had issues with the fact he was based in...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Governance Issues: Irish Horseracing Regulatory Board (Resumed) (29 Nov 2023)
Paul Daly: With regard to the pre-race testing, I presume all samples go to a laboratory and there is no on-the-spot testing, litmus paper testing or anything. If a pre-race test is done, the horse still goes on and runs anyway. Is there a waiting time to get the result or does IHRB have the facilities to produce an on-the-spot indication? I remember, from science in school, that a litmus paper test...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Governance Issues: Irish Horseracing Regulatory Board (Resumed) (29 Nov 2023)
Paul Daly: In that scenario, if the initial, as l call it, litmus paper test rings alarm bells or indicates that a more analytical test is needed that involves the sampling of hair, blood or whatever, is that horse still allowed to run in the race?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Governance Issues: Irish Horseracing Regulatory Board (Resumed) (29 Nov 2023)
Paul Daly: Even though there may be a question mark over it.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Governance Issues: Irish Horseracing Regulatory Board (Resumed) (29 Nov 2023)
Paul Daly: Pre-race.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Governance Issues: Irish Horseracing Regulatory Board (Resumed) (29 Nov 2023)
Paul Daly: When was pre-race testing introduced?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Governance Issues: Irish Horseracing Regulatory Board (Resumed) (29 Nov 2023)
Paul Daly: Has any horse ever been sanctioned on the back of pre-race testing?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Governance Issues: Irish Horseracing Regulatory Board (Resumed) (29 Nov 2023)
Paul Daly: What is being tested for in those samples?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Governance Issues: Irish Horseracing Regulatory Board (Resumed) (29 Nov 2023)
Paul Daly: There has not been one negative or positive, whichever way you want to look at it, from a pre-race test since it was introduced-----