QRIC Substance control strategy

The Commission is committed to the development of improved detection methods for substances that may be used for doping purposes.

The QRIC substance control strategy aims to identify areas where the use of prohibited substances is a risk to the racing industry.

The way the Commission tests racing animals and when, relies on intelligence and research to avoid a predictable pattern that benefits those looking to abuse substances for doping purposes.

All racing participants including those who choose to break the rules will not have the benefit of knowing when they will be tested.

The ratio of pre-race, post-race, and out-of-competition testing may be adjusted without notice.

Racing participants have a responsibility to sustain the future of the racing industry and strengthened detection methods will hold them to account and assure the public that maintaining the highest integrity standards and racing animal care are paramount.

Prohibited substance definition

The Australian Rules of Racing define a ‘Prohibited Substance’ to mean: “a substance declared by these Rules to be a prohibited substance, or which falls within any of the groups of substances declared by these Rules to be prohibited substances unless it is specifically excepted”.

Subject to the rules of racing, any horse that has been brought to a racecourse and a prohibited substance is detected in any sample taken from it prior to or following its running in any race must be disqualified from any race in which it started on that day.

View the Australian Rules of Racing

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