Trainer Kieran Cotter has been fined a total of €27,500 by the Irish Horseracing Regulatory Board following a hearing on Monday.
The handler was fined €2,500 after Slade Runner tested positive for cobalt after winning at Dundalk in January 2021, with the majority of the penalty handed out for breaches found on a subsequent unannounced visit to Cotter’s yard the following month.
The IHRB raised a number of concerns after that inspection, including “used syringes and needles” that “were left lying in a number of locations in the premises” of which Cotter said he was not aware, did not know where they came from and had not used them.
