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A rather peculiar story was lived in the equestrian world this weekend, since the Court of Arbitration for Sport (TAS for its French acronym), removed a two-year suspension from the Swiss rider Nadja Peter, after showing that your horse tested positive by accident with the substance desmetiltramadol, due to the urine of a man.
The reason for the peculiar “doping“, is because this substance is a metabolite of the opioid analgesic tramadol, which the horse named Saura de Fondcombe, entered your system, because comitted grass infected with urine from a team driver of the rider, who had taken the pain reliever to treat back pain, according to the British specialist magazine Horse and Hound.
The suspension I had received Peter had applied until May 2021, after it was sanctioned in 2019, because it was in 2017 that his horse tested positive during a competition held in Tetouan, Morocco. In addition to the two years, the rider had to pay about $ 7,900 in fines.
According to what the British magazine reports, at first the Swiss rider thought that her horse had become infected by licking someone’s hand, but then she tracked the situation with her driver, who He agreed to have urinated precisely in the section of the truck where the horses are and they have their hay to eat.
Because he did it while preparing the competition stables in Morocco, the horse was exposed to food for a long time it had already been contaminated by the man’s urine.
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