Administering performance-enhancing substances to horses, aimed at improving their performance or reducing pain during a sporting performance is the gravest offence in horseracing sport, both in legal terms and in moral terms.
Dostihový spolek a.s. [organizer of events at Pardubice racecourse] has been following the situation that has been developing due to suspicions that horses at a race meeting at Pardubice were doped.
The second Sunday in October is every year the culmination of the Czech steeplechasing season, and it was again this year. Nikas won the VP on merit, and 41-y-o Marek Stromský was a highly popular and deserving winning jockey. We are told that a fortune-teller informed him that he would have an unsuccessful beginning to the season, but that he would win the Velka. That prediction was totally correct.
Täby racecourse near Stockholm, the most important racecourse in Sweden and one of only two courses in the country that puts on steeplechasing, held its final meeting last weekend. A new course, Bro Park, is due to open in 2016.
The autumn part of the horseracing season at Prague Velká Chuchle has offered an unusally high number of major races for good prizemoney, and there are two more to come this Sunday, October 25th.
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