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Racing giant Sheik Mohammed is no stranger to doping controversies



Sheik Mohammed, founder of the shamed Godolphin operation, has been tainted previously by three equine doping infringements involving himself, his family and his horses.

Thoroughbred racing's biggest scandal continues to unfold following an eight-year ban for trainer Mahmood Al Zarooni after anabolic steroid stanozolol was found in some of Godolphin's horses.

But the Sheik has been in trouble with the same substance before. Both he and his son, Hamdan, the Crown Prince of Dubai, have been banned after traces were found in the horses they were riding.



Inquiry: Horses to be tested at Godolphin's Newmarket yard will include last year¿s St Leger winner, Encke

And in a third case, a ban was handed out to a British rider using a horse borrowed from Sheik Mohammed that tested positive for another banned steroid.


The Sheik was suspended for six months in 2009 and fined £2,500 by the International Equestrian Federation after his mount Tahhan tested positive for banned substances, including stanozolol, in two competitions.

In addition, Tahhan's trainer, Abdullah bin Huzaim, was banned for 12 months.

In a statement at the time, the Sheik said he had a stake in 700 endurance horses but could not be expected to be aware of each one's medication protocol.


Yet only a month earlier, his wife, Princess Haya, the FEI president, had stressed that it was up to the rider to know how his horse was managed.


A year later, Sheik Hamdan was in trouble when traces of stanozolol were found in his horse Eo Fawati in an endurance race in Bahrain.



Not the first time: Sheik Mohammed (left) with Mahmood Al Zarooni at Newmarket racecourse

After Hamdan was banned for 10 months he said: 'It is likely there is intense competition among the grooms, and this might lead to errors of judgment by them.'

In 2006, a teenage British rider, Alice Beet, was banned and fined after a horse she borrowed from Sheik Mohammed tested positive for an anti-inflammatory steroid.


His company, Atlantic Endurance SARL, under whose banner he loaned Harmatan De Lozere, were fined £640.


The FEI's judicial committee accepted the horse was under the exclusive care of Atlantic Endurance SARL until the morning of the event and agreed it was most likely the substance entered the horse while in the owner's care.


The company did not provide an explanation for the test while stressing their staff were innocent. In written evidence Beet stated: 'I have learned from this experience and in the future I will take hands-on control of the diet and security for any horse I agree to ride.'

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