sport news Two men handed 10-year bans from horse racing for doping favourite at Newcastle
Two men handed 10-year bans from racing for doping Ladies First with a beta blocker after the 6-4 favourite finished unplaced at Newcastle Neil Waggot and Stephen Walker were named at the BHA hearing on Thursday They had been taken on by Newcastle's stable manager to do maintenance work Pair were caught on CCTV feeding something to 6-4 favourite Ladies First Both men did not co-operate with the enquiry and did not appear at the hearing
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Two men have been banned from racing for 10 years by BHA over the doping of Ladies First at Newcastle in September 2018.
Neil Waggot and Stephen Walker were named at the BHA hearing on Thursday after being caught on CCTV feeding something to 6-4 favourite Ladies First, who subsequently tested positive for a Beta Blocker Timolol after finishing unplaced.
Both men, who did not co-operate with the enquiry and did not appear at the hearing, were also captured approaching Victoriano, another beaten favourite at the meeting. Subsequent hair tests also showed the presence of Timolol.
BHA hearing heard two men used Newcastle stable access to nobble a 6-4 favourite in 2018
Both Waggot and Walker had been taken on by
