Charles Byrnes lodges enchantment over six-month coaching ban and €1,000 effective
Coach Charles Byrnes has lodged an enchantment towards the choice of the Irish Horseracing Regulatory Board to droop his licence for six months and effective him €1,000 after considered one of his horses examined constructive for a banned substance.
The Byrnes-trained Viking Hoard was pulled up at Tramore on October 18, 2018, after which a urine pattern was discovered to include hydroxyethylpromazinehydroxide (HEPS), a metabolite of acepromazine (ACP), which is a sedative and prohibited below the foundations of racing.
The IHRB Referrals Committee held a listening to by way of Zoom on January 7, with the authority informing Byrnes of its resolution on Monday earlier than issuing a 14-page written judgement to help its conclusions.
Nevertheless, the IHRB added it had “been suggested that the coach might be lodging an enchantment towards this resolution”, and the lodging of that enchantment was confirmed to the PA information company by the IHRB on Friday.
