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Tattersalls, Goffs Announce New Policies For Corticosteroids And Bronchodilators

Tattersalls and Goffs are to introduce new restrictions relating to the use of corticosteroids and bronchodilators, including Clenbuterol, for all yearlings, and horses in and out of training including breeze up 2-year-olds, sold at sales conducted by the two sales houses.

The new restrictions will be introduced with effect from the start of the UK and Irish yearling sales season beginning on Sept. 1 with the Goffs UK Premier Yearling Sale.

The new Conditions of Sale will allow buyers to have post-sale testing for corticosteroids and bronchodilators (Clenbuterol), with a positive test for undeclared use of corticosteroids, or any trace of bronchodilators (Clenbuterol) resulting in the subject horse being returnable to the vendor at the option of the purchaser under the Conditions of Sale.

The new conditions are in addition to long standing restrictions on the use of anabolic steroids and non-steroidal anti-inflammatories, as well as the ban on the use of Bisphosphonates introduced in 2019.

In a joint statement, Tattersalls chairman Edmond Mahony and Goffs Group chief executive Henry Beeby said:

“Both Tattersalls and Goffs are united in maintaining the highest standards of integrity and horse welfare at all of our sales and the new policies relating to the use of corticosteroids and bronchodilators reflect our shared commitment to addressing issues which threaten in any way to undermine confidence in the marketplace.”

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Sale Voided On Seven-Figure Speightster Colt At OBS Spring Auction

One of the highlights of the Ocala Breeders' Sales Co. Spring 2-Year-Olds in Training Sale was undone when buyer Larry Best of OXO Equine turned back the purchase of a $1.1-million Speightster colt, BloodHorse reports.

The purchase was voided under the Conditions of Sale after staff at Taylor Made Farm in Nicholasville, Ky., found the colt to be a cribber; a condition that was not announced at the time he was in the ring. Video was taken of the horse cribbing, and sent to the OBS staff, with Best formally announcing his intention to return the horse shortly before the end of the seven-day window to do so.

To learn more about cribbing in relationship to sales, click here.

Tom McCrocklin consigned the colt as agent for Solana Beach Sales, the pinhooking wing of the Little Red Feather Racing partnership. The colt will be sent to trainer Bob Baffert to begin his racetrack career. McCrocklin told BloodHorse that the colt had showed no signs of cribbing prior to the sale, thus an announcement was not warranted, but the sellers were happy to retain the horse to race.

Named Fortunate Son, the New York-bred colt is out of the stakes-placed Indian Charlie mare Auspicious, who is the dam of three winners from four foals to race. He sold for $110,000 at last year's Fasig-Tipton New York-Bred Yearling Sale.