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Aidan O’Brien has hinted at the enormous financial and emotional cost of being forced to remove all his riders from Sunday’s Prix de l’Arc de Triomphe card at Longchamp due to contaminated food.
But the coach revealed that he hoped to be free to have riders again starting this Wednesday in Ireland.
O’Brien and his sons Joseph and Donnacha withdrew the runners from all meetings after urine samples that were sent to a French laboratory tested positive for the banned substance Zilpaterol.
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It followed news that Gain Equine Nutrition had advised its customers to stop using their food products after batches become contaminated with zilpaterol, which is not licensed in Europe but is used in the US and elsewhere for promote weight gain, mainly in cattle.
Aidan O’Brien was supposed to have four riders in the £ 2.5 million arc alone, including Derby winner Serpentine, who received a € 72,000 supplement, and expressed sympathy for the Coolmore axis funding Operation Ballydoyle.
“The GAIN Equine Nutrition team is hugely disappointed …”
Read the full statement below. pic.twitter.com/k6rwEyj0p8– GAIN EquineNutrition (@GAINEquine) October 4, 2020
“I’m sorry for the guys,” he said on Luck On Sunday. “They put in so much and the cost is incredible.
“Everyone is working very hard to try to breed the horses, sell them, train them, compete with them. They put so much into getting the horses to this stage, they try to make it happen, I am so sorry for I hope we can all figure it out.
“This morning it’s very quiet here.”
Gain Equine Nutrition tweeted its sympathy for this affected and said: “The GAIN Equine Nutrition team is greatly disappointed to learn that some of our customers have withdrawn their horses from major equine events this weekend, including the Prix de l’Arc de Triomphe in Paris.
“We continue to work closely with all appropriate agencies, including the Irish Department of Agriculture, to thoroughly investigate the source, nature and extent of this contamination.
“We are also in close contact with the horse racing regulatory bodies. We will provide a more detailed update once more information is available.”
Looking ahead, O’Brien has entries in Ireland this week and many of the best two-year-olds entered Group 1 Fillies’ Mile at Newmarket on Friday and Dewhurst Stakes there on Saturday.
“I guess the best scenario is that we would have to have a two or three day retirement stage and maybe we could run again on Wednesday or Thursday,” he said.
“We may have runners on Wednesday, Thursday and Friday in Ireland and hopefully runners on the weekend. We would have to take blood and urine samples from the horse probably starting tomorrow and do it every day until the end of week”.
“But everyone in Ireland and England has to see if they are going to test and if they do, how low is the bar going to be? There are a lot of questions that need to be answered. We are going to start testing on Monday and we will. every day, probably using the French labs until there are some labs in England or Ireland that we can use. “
How the drama unfolded:
O’Brien Arc corridors among those who have doubts due to contaminated food
Aidan O’Brien and sons forced to withdraw all Longchamp runners on Sunday
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FIRST POST 10:31 AM, OCTOBER 4, 2020
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