$1,400,000 euro horse Walk In The Sun (currently unbeaten) has tested positive for Cocaine. This is the 2nd time Noseda has been charged with horses testing positive for the substance.
Now we know why Gronkowski was removed from his barn, as were all of the other Phoenix Thoroughbreds.
@snaffle1987 Quite the allegations you make. Didn’t you read the sticky note? Cocaine is usually environmental contamination. Noseda probably rarely touches his horses and no one gives a race horse cocaine on purpose. The most likely explanation is that someone in the barn has a habit and that’s how it got into the horses’ systems.
Phoenix fired him in May, and fired Kerri way back in March. Perhaps they just were not happy with the outfit as a whole, or for other reasons.
@palmbeach highly doubtful. Kerri and Jeremy are no longer an item and haven’t been for awhile now. This whole whispering of cocaine has long been whispered around Newmarket for weeks now waiting for the official report.
Cocaine has been found in the show horse world as well and yes, people do give it to performance horses, that is the type of sick world we live in. It really must be quite the habit for it to be in the horse’s system not once but twice on two separate occasions at the same strength.
Sure environmental contamination is a problem. I just find it ironic that both times it was exactly the same measurement of the drug.
As is in the performance horse world the trainer takes ultimate responsibility for the horse and his recent findings seem to be no surprise to anyone!
There really is no performance enhancing benefit to giving cocaine to any horse, and they’ve been testing for it forever. It doesn’t make them jump higher or run faster. When you see a cocaine positive, it’s pretty much always due to environmental contamination.
I did not see the test level results, but if you say the same horse had identical levels, what were they? And I would not be surprised if a person with a cocaine habit who was assigned to a particular horse as rider/groom/whatever managed to contaminate that horse twice. I’d be testing all the staff.
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