Subject: POSITIVE FINDING RETURNED BY HORSE, ADORATION PROHIBITED SUBSTANCE: FUROSEMIDE (CLASS 4 Drug)
January 20, 2021


The First Instance Tribunal, Delegatees of the Jamaica Racing Commission, on the 18TH January, 2021 concluded an investigation under Section 25 of the Jamaica Racing Commission Act, into a report by the Racing Chemist that a urine sample taken from the horse, ADORATION, on Saturday, 25th JANUARY 2020, in Race No. 3, indicated the presence of FUROSEMIDE, a prohibited substance under the Rules of Racing. The split sample was subsequently analyzed at the University of the West Indies Mona Analytical Chemistry Lab (UWIMAC), where it was confirmed that FUROSEMIDE was present in the sample. After considering the evidence, the Tribunal: ? Accepted the finding of the Racing Chemist, that the urine sample taken from the horse ADORATION, contained the prohibited substance FUROSEMIDE and pursuant to Rule 207 of the Racing Rules, disqualified it from the race in question. ? The Tribunal deliberated and Found Trainer Philip Feanny and groom Glenworth Thompson liable. ? As a result Mr. Feanny was fined Sixty-five Thousand Dollars ($65,000.00) and Groom Glenworth Thompson was fined Thirty-five Thousand Dollars ($35,000.00). Mr. Garth McBean Q.C., the Commission’s Legal Adviser, marshalled the evidence on behalf of the Commission.