The Irish Horseracing Regulatory Board has announced that all the horses present at a raid on a premises near Monasterevin earlier this month have tested negative for banned substances.
Animal remedies that are not licensed for use in racehorses in Ireland and that were found in the possession of equine therapist John Warwick were seized, following the raid led by Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine officials, acting on their own investigations and information received.
They were supported by Gardaí as well as Irish Horseracing Regulatory Board authorised officers, including head of anti-doping Lynn Hillyer.
A statement from the IHRB said: "The Irish Horseracing Regulatory Board can today confirm that the hair and blood samples taken from horses at a premises near Monasterevin, County Kildare, on 9 November 2021 have been analysed at LGC laboratories and reported negative for prohibited at all times substances.
"As this is part of an ongoing investigation working in conjunction with the Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine and other agencies, we cannot make any further comment at this time."
RTÉ racing pundit Ted Walsh was among those to have horses tested by Hillyer, after he arrived at the Kildare stud farm following the raid, seeking laser therapy for a three-year-old horse with a muscle injury.
"It's a bad old thing for racing," he told RTÉ Sport. "I'm sorry that someone as high-profile as me in racing was even there. To cast a shadow on the game. I can’t do anything about that now."
Walsh insisted he had nothing to hide and had never administered restricted substances to a horse or asked a third party to do so.
"I am 71 years of age and, I haven't had that many winners, but we've had plenty of old winners and we have had winners in England and here or there. And I have never in my life, nor my father before me, had a horse come up positive for anything."
