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Prolific racehorse  owner Chin quitsMonday, May 7 2012
LOCAL horseracing has lost another major player.This time it is TTRA chairman Derek Chin, who has decided to quit the local horseracing scene.

His withdrawal follows closely on that of Junior Sammy after last year’s Derby and owner-breeder Brian Stollmeyer.

As a result of Chin quitting racing, his brain-child the Caribbean Nations Racing Challenge succesfully launched in December last year, becomes a thing of the past.

Chin who was asked to head the Trinidad and Tobago Racing Authority by Trade and Industry Minister Stephen Cadiz is contemplating resignation from the position. A “doping” incident involving his horse Boogie Blues, winner of last year’s Republic Bank Gold Cup, triggered Chin’s decision.

A test of samples taken from Boogie Blues according to Chin, was confirmed as negative by the testing facility in Iowa.

He said the preliminary report received from the Iowa State University Laboratory was called “suspicious” and was later listed as “positive” in a second report because of a minute substance of 1/9th billionth of a gramme of Indomethecin.

Chin said the drug was Class 3 or four theraputic medicine for horses and he emphasised it was not a performance enhancing drug.

He pointed out the threshold or calibrated setting for the medication was set at 100 nanogramme/ML by the lab, while Boogie Blues sample came in at a mere 9nanogrammes/M, well below the accepted threshold level for the substance.

Chin said over the last few months there has been conflicting reports and published opinions on the issue of zero tolerance as it related to drug testing in horse racing arising out of the test on Boogie Blues.

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