Trainer Dianne Poidevin-Laine has been suspended for eight months after one of her horses returned a positive drug test.
Filly Dane Empress was found to have an alkalising agent, in the form of an elevated TCO2 level, in her system following a routine blood test prior to her seventh at Kembla Grange on June 11.
Poidevin-Laine and her foreman and husband, Carl Poidevin, attended a stewards’ inquiry in Sydney on Thursday when they pleaded guilty to bringing a horse to the races with a prohibited substance in its system.
Both had their respective licences suspended for eight months, starting immediately and expiring on February 29.
It is the second time Poidevin-Laine and her husband have been suspended for a TCO2 offence.
The pair was outed for five months in April 2009 after Celtic Courage returned an elevated TCO2 level prior to finishing unplaced in Daffodil’s AJC Australian Oaks.
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