Morphine Positives Bring Call for Threshold Levels

Be My Royal, winner of the one the biggest races of the National Hunt season to date, faces disqualification in connection with a rash of positive drug tests for traces of morphine in British and Irish races due to contaminated feed.

The situation has brought a call for threshold levels for morphine and other substances that may occur through environmental

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Be My Royal, winner of the one the biggest races of the National Hunt season to date, faces disqualification in connection with a rash of positive drug tests for traces of morphine in British and Irish races due to contaminated feed.

The situation has brought a call for threshold levels for morphine and other substances that may occur through environmental contamination

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Mark Popham also writes for The Blood-Horse, sister magazine to The Horse.

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